A hot blob of rock beneath New Hampshire may be helping the Appalachian Mountains stand so tall. The rock mass is slowly on the move, headed one day for New York.

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

On May 22, 1960, the world witnessed the most powerful earthquake in recorded history. Striking the southern region of Chile, ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years.

Tectonic plates are made up of Earth’s crust and the rigid top layer of the mantle, known as the lithospheric mantle.

Earthquake: The shaking and vibration of a section of the Earth's crust due to the movement of the Earth's plates (plate ...

Tectonic plates are composed of Earth's crust and the uppermost portion of the mantle. Below is the asthenosphere: the warm, viscous conveyor belt of rock on which tectonic plates ride.

The team’s analysis of tungsten isotopes in the rocks reveals Earth in the act of transitioning to plate tectonics around 3.2 billion years ago.

New research has revealed Venus may have had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago. The finding opens up the possibility that the second planet from the sun, aka a scorching world, also ...

(Image credit: VisualProduction via Shutterstock) Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years.