The team studied the mineral zircon from two of the oldest pieces of intact crust—dating 4.0 to 2.7 billion years old—and discovered that ancient plate tectonics, or how the continents move ...

Where convection currents push plates together, destructive plate boundaries (margins) are formed. Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are ...

Jupiter's Moon io. Credit: Unsplash+. It has been thought that the existence of plate tectonics has been a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus ...

When NASCAR instituted the Next Gen car in 2022, it meant if teams were to find any type of advantage over the competition, they'd have to do so by capitalizing ...

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

Viable cordless alternatives were demonstrated for handling rebar, concrete and everything in between from Bosch, DeWalt, ...

Susan Schwartz, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a lecture titled "Anatomy of a Megathrust Plate Boundary Through the Earthquake Cycle" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, ...

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

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for ...