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

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

Massive ocean discovered beneath the Earth's crust containing more water than on the surface ...

Rocks from Australia have given scientists the oldest direct proof that Earth's surface was moving in separate pieces 3.5 billion years ago.

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 ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

PCWorld reports that scientists discovered Earth’s inner core has slowed its rotation relative to the crust, even appearing to stop moving in a phenomenon that occurs every 35 years. This iron-nickel ...

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster than researchers previously understood. Scientists now have direct evidence ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...