The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Mitsotakis's remarks come as many people in Santorini spent Sunday night outdoors, amid fears of potential damages to ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Schools on the Greek island of Santorini have been told to close on Monday in response to an increase in seismic activity in ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...