Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

A research team found evidence that a plume of hot mantle and tectonic plates generate activity deep beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, which will one day tear apart the African continent and create ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Southampton has found evidence that rhythmic ...

It seems to happen after every major earthquake. You hear stories of cats and dogs exhibiting unusual behavior before an ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

Their findings provide new insights into the plate’s long and complex history, stretching back 160 million years. The most recent evidence suggests that it persisted in some form until about 20 ...

Without plate tectonics, the Earth would look very different than it does today. Our mountain ranges, oceans, volcanoes, and even entire continents all get their recognizable feat ...

As an undergrad at MIT in the 1950s, Lynn Sykes ’59, SM ’60, became interested in the theory of continental drift, which held that the world’s great landmasses had wandered across Earth over ...

Plate tectonics, the theory that underpins Earth's geological activity, shapes our planet with mountains, shifting continents, and seismic upheavals. Yet pinpointing the origins of this ...