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

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

Why? Because the earth beneath it is moving. Every year, the tectonic plates in the area around Golan Heights shift between 0.3 and 0.6 inches. That means Ruim el-Hiri, located about 10 miles east of ...

Maine is not typically associated with significant seismic activity, making Monday's earthquake all the more unusual. Most ...

The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

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