For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

New research suggests that Earth's inner core, long believed to be stable, may be undergoing structural changes, including a ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

"These two large islands are surrounded by a graveyard of tectonic plates that have been transported there by a process called 'subduction', where one tectonic plate dives below another plate and ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Intermediate-depth earthquakes ...

Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...