Map of the Word with lines marking boundaries of tectonic plates. Plate tectonics is a theory that explains how Earth’s lithosphere—its upper mantle and crust—is split into sections called ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

Plate tectonics, the theory that underpins Earth's geological activity, shapes our planet with mountains, shifting continents ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only six.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Oceania is a region of islands which includes Australia but is not classed as a continent. Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Analysis of historical earthquake records and interseismic deformation across the East Anatolian Fault Zone suggests that coseismic slip in the 2023 earthquakes strongly corresponded to the slip ...