Exactly when and how plate tectonics started, however, is a matter of debate. Now, in a study published March 19 in the ...

Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

The researchers studied the East Pilbara Craton formation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, seen here. - Roger Norman/Alamy Stock Photo The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and ...

Earth’s internal structure continues to reveal details that reshape established scientific explanations about the planet’s formation. One such develop.

Scientists say they have uncovered new clues in Australia about when plate tectonics began on Earth, the only known planet to have the geological process.

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar in March 2025, but what makes this event extraordinary is what happened next. For the first time, a nearby CCTV camera captured the fault rupture in ...

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster ...

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...

The continental collisions that created this narrow Mideast waterway endowed the region with its petrochemical riches—and ...

New research may have solved a long-standing geological mystery in the United States that has puzzled scientists for more than 150 years. Scientists have spent more than a century trying to understand ...

The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon ...