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?

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Before Plate Tectonics arrived and different collisions occurred, Pangea a supercontinent existed. Let’s see in detail about Pangea, its formations & geography and what is the relevance of ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ecosystem of the region, as well as the way humans live. In the geologic ...

A new study has revealed a hidden mechanism that could explain how creeping stress along tectonic plates can lead to catastrophic earthquakes. The research, involving laboratory experiments with ...