Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

Although we may not always notice it, the surface of our planet is constantly shifting below our feet. To demonstrate this, scientists from the University of Sydney in Australia have modelled how the ...

Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet according to scientists, may have once had tectonic plate movements similar to those believed to have occurred on early Earth, a new study found. PROVIDENCE, R ...

Diamonds form approximately 150 kilometres deep in the Earth’s crust and are brought to the surface very quickly in eruptions called kimberlites, travelling at between 18 and 133 kilometres per hour.

New data shows the Kerguelen hotspot, once thought stationary, shifted hundreds of km—overturning a key plate tectonics assumption. This aligns with newer theories that hotspots aren’t truly fixed, ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R. Dietmar ...

The Earth may eventually have a new ocean. Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea away from the rest of the ...

Deep beneath the Indian subcontinent, tectonic shifts are slowly reshaping its foundation. NASA–ESA alliance launches the planet’s toughest ocean detective. Solar Storms And A Haunted Sun: What NASA’s ...