Many people imagine Earth’s interior mantle as separate layers stacked on top of each other, like a layered cake, with each layer representing a plate. In reality, those internal zones are complex and ...

About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

Scientists have documented a bizarre tectonic dance happening in the Iberian Peninsula.

Knoxville police lost a key crime-fighting tool when the city’s network of license-plate reader cameras went dark after the contract with vendor Flock expired on Dec. 31, 2025. With the flip of a ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how landscapes and our world have changed over millions of years, check out this fun, edible exercise using graham ...

The Patriots and Broncos played in one of the wildest AFC championship games in recent memory on Sunday, and we now have visual evidence of how crazy it was. New England beat Denver 10-7 in a contest ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ice ages and warm climates, new research finds. Published in Communications ...

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum stuck to a shoe. Using abundant, tiny ...

Keeping an eye on geophysical instruments inside Alvin. “It’s much more crowded than it looks,” Atwater said of the interior of the submersible Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Atwater ...

We’ve known for a while that Mars was once a wet world. But there’s always been a geological puzzle regarding how and where that water moved. On Earth, rivers are largely driven by plate tectonics.