Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

A 3.7 magnitude earthquake near Jhajjar, Haryana, created tremors across Delhi-NCR Friday evening, marking the second seismic ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving the continent's split. The ...

Dive into the world beneath your feet and discover what tectonic plates are, how they move, and why they're responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, and the shifting of continents.

Earth’s plate tectonics may be more than a geological phenomenon—it could be the spark that made life possible and a clue in the search for life beyond our planet.

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did this process begin?

Geology’s biggest mystery: when did plate tectonics start to reshape Earth? Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around.

How plate tectonics may have impacted life Stern and Gerya focused on active planets — those with interiors that are still hot enough to partially melt material and form young volcanoes.