When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Plate tectonics may have played a larger role in the evolution of life on Earth than we ...
Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...
A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...
Brian Lacki has released a set of three prepublication studies attempting to rationalize and measure the odds of a ...
Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...
When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...
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The isotopic ratio of sulfur-33 on the moon differs from that of Earth. Did the moon's sulfur instead come from the impactor ...
Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...