The key to complex life might be hiding miles below our feet. ... Plate tectonics is a fundamental feature of Earth. As far as astronomers know, other planets may have broken-up crusts, ...

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...

A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that could have made it more hospitable to life. By Kenneth Chang Venus today is not ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon evaluates the importance of maintaining military and economic alliances amid shifting geopolitical "tectonic plates." ...

It has to do with the Earth’s tectonic plates. Robert Stern of the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology say that tectonic plates are one key ...

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

They found, when tectonic plates pull apart, ... That creates a kind of soup made up of rock, water, carbon dioxide and many key kimberlite materials, including diamonds. 3.

In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 4 billion years ago, plate tectonics likely looked closer to what we ...

A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays ...

One key reason that has been proposed, Lowman noted, is that the greater release of heat that happens under plate tectonics, rather than a stagnant-lid regime, ...

Tectonic plates under the Americas, Europe, and Africa are separating as the Atlantic Ocean grows wider. A 2021 study suggests atypically hot material, 410 miles underground, is rising and forcing ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and opening new oceans. But where these upwellings form, what they’re made of, ...