Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated fragments of Pangea. This ocean is entirely gone today, although the ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean ...

Plate tectonics have caused the landmasses to shift ... Ethiopia would form a new continent separated by the world's sixth ocean," said Metro. A change this drastic could have major implications ...

Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip ...

The giant ocean called Panthalassa surrounded Pangaea. Areas near the coast were pummeled by seasonal monsoons, but ocean-circulation patterns kept the isolated and vast interior warm and dry.

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...