First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

Beneath our feet lie two massive structures scientists can’t fully explain. New research links them to something far more ancient—and violent—than once believed.

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in northeastern Africa. Hot rock masses then flowed further north beneath the ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Nepal in the early hours of Friday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS) ...

The Africa–Eurasia plate boundary presents one of the world’s most varied and dynamic tectonic settings—encompassing subduction zones, strike-slip faults ...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Nepal early Friday, as reported by the National Center for Seismology. The quake, occurring ...

A recent studypublished in Naturepresents compelling evidence of ancient planetary material buried deep within Earth’s mantle ...

These collisions often form what are known as ... The rift valley is a classic example of a divergent plate boundary. Photograph by Chris Johns This is surprisingly similar to the contrasting ...

"The Tibet-India collision isn't over yet," Harrison told Live Science. If the evidence of tectonics is disappearing even as a plate-to-plate collision is occurring, what hope is there of finding ...

Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics. By Lucas Joel Some 4.5 billion years ...