Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution ... and magnitude of tectonic uplift and the ...

Despite its localised nature, the effects of this dripping are felt across a broad area of the North American craton, which spans much of the US and Canada.

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

The research, published in the National Science Review, details the discovery of Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis, a new species ...

So when I talk about the underlying tectonic plates of the global economy ... if anybody believed they were stable, we could simply model that out: OK, a 10 percent tariff here, a 60 percent ...

Rethinking early Earth formation For decades, scientists have tried to identify when plate tectonics first began, marking the earliest evolution of life ... to formation The initial results from the ...