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

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

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

If you happen to reside in the western counties of the British Isles, it’s possible you felt a small tremor at the tail end ...

The models can help local authorities and communities by evaluating the potential for collapse long before ground may give ...

Some fifty million years ago tectonic plates crashed and the Himalayas were pushed upwards. The seabed transformed into still ...

An earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale hit Doda in Jammu & Kashmir on Monday, at 02:47:08 IST, according to the ...

The Marquette Regional History Center and the Michigan State University Extension had a joint hike through Old Towne on ...

New research from the U of A found strong evidence in Mars' geology of a former ocean in the planet's northern hemisphere.

When astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt returned from NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972, they carried with them a ...