Researchers believe a ring system around Earth could have contributed to the global cooling event known as the Hirnantian ...

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge ...

The video reconstructs Earth’s surface evolution, presented as a relative plate motion model and it's stunning.

The theory had been proposed most notably by ... showed that continental drift—now known as plate tectonics—was indeed occurring. “It was recognized right then and there, and by a number ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the Earth may have once had a system of Saturn-like rings. The rings are ...

The discovery of ancient remains from a primitive fish in outback Australia has helped reveal a new understanding about the ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that the Earth's crust and upper mantle are composed of numerous major and minor plates that ...

Earth may have had a ring system that came into existence around 466 million years ago, a new study has suggested. This was ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...