Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, researchers have uncovered striking new evidence of ancient seafloor buried for millions of ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

People who know stuff tell us that the Appalachian Mountains are 1.2 billion years old. And here I am all fidgety waiting six ...