Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

A screenshot from a video showing Brooke Coleman walking between two tectonic plates in Iceland. Brooke Coleman/@enroutelifestylee on TikTok Thingvellir National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be. These massive slabs, part of the lithosphere, meet at their edges where all the ...

But as far as we know, no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

Mount Everest is part of the Himalayan mountain range in Asia where many of the world’s tallest mountains are found. Earth’s surface is made up of different sections called tectonic plates.

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for ...

This region is also home to two tectonic plates, the Somali and Nubian, that are actively moving away from each other. The Earth's lithosphere, formed by the crust and the upper part of the mantle ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.

The whole world used to be joined in one supercontinent called Pangaea. The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates.