An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

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.

An unprecedented observation of a major geological process is currently taking place off the North American coast. For the ...

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

Katia Krafft traveled to volcanoes around the world to unlock their mysteries, capture their beauty, and raise awareness of their risks.

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...

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

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

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

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...