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

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

In 2021 and 2022, NASA’s InSight lander picked up the tremors coming from the depths of Mars. These Marsquakes were quickly ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

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 ...

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

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?

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

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