Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

The Continental Drift Theory explains how Earth's continents slowly moved over time. This idea was first shared by Alfred Wegener in 1912. He believed that all continents were once joined together in ...

Africa rests on three tectonic plates that are all moving away from each other and this has already caused some changes that are visible to the naked eye.

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Millions of years ago, the Red Sea vanished, becoming a vast salt desert for 100,000 years. Around 6.2 million years ago, a ...

Conditions in mountain ranges outperform rift basins: colder temperatures and ample water circulation along faults allow ...

The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, ...

In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...

There has been much debate among scientists about whether an area deep within the Earth is dry as a rock or sloshing with ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...