A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...
Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.
Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the Earth ...
In the dead of night on July 6, 1943, U.S. and Japanese warships collided in the narrow waters of the Solomon Islands.