The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live ... The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

Earth's lithosphere — its crust and rigid ... Without the convective mantle, there wouldn't be enough energy to move the plates. But convection on its own isn't enough to guarantee that a ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.