The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth’s early continents ...

These mysteries highlight our planet's complexity and the vast realms of knowledge still waiting to be uncovered.

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

Science has advanced not just through steady progress, but often through the perseverance of individuals whose ideas were ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake that devastated Myanmar this year provided the first footage ever that captured the movement of ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.