But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

With the possibility of Mother Nature completely wiping us out, a supercomputer analyzed various pieces of data relating to ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...