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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?

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

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

Searcher Seismic’s geoscience head Neil Hodgson discusses blue-sky thinking, plate tectonics and contourites, ahead of key ...

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

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Santorini's earthquakes are intensifying as a rare earthquake swarm continues to rattle the Mediterranean's Aegean Sea. The ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...