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 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 ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

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 ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a handful of smaller ones.

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

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.

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

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