Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

This video explores what Earth could look like 250 million years in the future based on plate tectonics and world atlas ...

The undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, is slowly moving into the Atlantic ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

An international team has created the first global map of deformation in Earth's deepest mantle, revealing that most warping occurs where ancient tectonic plates plunged nearly 3,000 kilometers below ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing “icehouse” periods and warm “greenhouse” states. Scientists have long linked these climate ...

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...