Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

New research may have brought Earth and its inhospitable, "evil twin" even closer together. Today, Venus seems to lack the tectonic activity seen on Earth, but surface features like faults, folds and ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

A geological breakup millions of years in the making could give birth to Earth’s newest ocean. Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different…millions of years from now, that is. Scientists ...

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data to track land ...

A magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck off the town of Calatagan in Batangas province on Thursday afternoon, the Philippine ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the surface of our planet. These mantle upwellings, sometimes referred to as mantle ...

Anyone who has hovered over a jigsaw puzzle for hours knows that sometimes you can’t figure out how two pieces fit together until you’ve placed all the pieces around them. The same holds true for ...

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was recorded early Thursday, Oct. 9, in the island town of Panukulan, Quezon province. The ...