Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

Netflix’s shocking $72 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. and HBO is the rare corporate mega-merger that can shift the tectonic plates of an entire industry and permanently change the way all of its ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

A series of earthquakes struck off Indonesia within 24 hours between Friday and Saturday, highlighting the seismic risks that ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Map of significant earthquakes (greater than magnitude 4) in the UK Credit: British Geological Survey/UKRI News of a ...

A long-dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in roughly 12,000 years, blanketing a neighboring village in ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.