Mars, a world of failed plate tectonics, did manage to forge some impressive volcanic features, including Olympus Mons, ... roughly around the time of the sun’s demise.

CENIEH scientists publish a pioneering study on this UNESCO Geopark, located between Burgos and Palencia, in which they ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As ...

Ocean acidification has crossed “planetary boundaries” in some parts of the ocean, deepening a crisis facing the planet’s ...

An invisible line cuts through Southeast Asia, splitting the animal kingdom in two — and not even birds dare to cross it.

The world's highest mountain range - the Himalayas - is a testament to the power of plate tectonics. Forced upwards by the gradual northward push of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate.

The combination of these factors could explain why Earth is the only planet known to exhibit plate tectonics today. In a 2022 study, Collins and his colleagues found that Jupiter's icy moon Europa ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of ... of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world ... rocks formed solely in subduction zones — dates back only around 700 million ...

As an undergrad at MIT in the 1950s, Lynn Sykes ’59, SM ’60, became interested in the theory of continental drift, which held that the world’s great landmasses had wandered across Earth over ...

Over millions of years, oceans widen and narrow, and continents move around the world, sometimes fusing to form vast supercontinents. Older parts of plates sink into Earth’s interior, where they ...