Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...

without needing plate tectonics to create them. The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions of early Earth, the element niobium would become siderophilic ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Kathmandu: A decade has passed since a massive earthquake ripped through Nepal, but in Ram Bahadur Nakarmi s home the damage ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of history's greatest animal migrations.