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

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers ...

Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, joins Zohran Mamdani's team, pushing community-led safety over NYPD tactics and sparking debate on NYC's public safety future.

The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered ...

Recent scientific revelations have upended the long-held belief that the rift between Africa and Asia, specifically through ...

The Andes Mountains: The Andes Mountains are a prime example of a continental-oceanic subduction zone, where the Nazca Plate ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

The so-called “Boring Billion” may have been anything but—a supercontinent’s breakup 1.46 billion years ago may have sparked ...

For millions of years, scientists believed the rift between Africa and Asia had ceased its tectonic pull. But recent findings ...

No one is exactly sure how the tectonic plates formed, but one theory posits that the were shattered from within by the ...