A new online tool, Paleolatitude.org, reveals Earth's past landscapes. Users can see how their location appeared millions of ...

From the slow creep of continents to the violent birth of mountains, plate tectonics has been sculpting Earth for billions of years. New research reveals that these processes may have started far ...

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles didn’t just erode into existence—they were slowly pushed up from the ocean floor by ...

Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time.

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, scientists have captured unusually sharp images of a tectonic plate that is breaking apart as it sinks beneath North America. They describe a slab drop of about five ...

The undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, is slowly moving into the Atlantic ...

Extinct species Strange mammal ancestor laid huge, leathery eggs —‬ and it was key to surviving the world's worst mass extinction Rivers & Oceans Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to ...

TORONTO — Since the end of last season, Andy Pages has been playing his favorite video game on the ‘expert’ setting. “I think I spent every single day in the offseason and during spring training ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...