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

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.

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 ...

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 reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise ... Asia in the millions of years since that historic collision. The Indian plate moves about five centimeters per year ...

"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 ...

If plate tectonics, oceans and continents are rare on worlds throughout the universe, that is. Alien life capable of communicating across interstellar space might not be able to evolve if its home ...

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 ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...