About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

For millions of years, the Earth has oscillated between ice ages and warmer episodes. The movements of the ground beneath our feet could play a much more important role in this cycle than previously ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how landscapes and our world have changed over millions of years, check out this fun, edible exercise using graham ...

New research highlights the complex relationship between Earth's tectonic plate movements and climate shifts. Contrary to prior belief, mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts significant influence ...

An earthquake-generating chunk of tectonic plate has been discovered beneath Northern California. It’s attached to the bottom of the North American plate like gum stuck to a shoe. Using abundant, tiny ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Derby team says the Atlantic divide may be incomplete. Iceland and the Davis Strait could hold stranded ...

Keeping an eye on geophysical instruments inside Alvin. “It’s much more crowded than it looks,” Atwater said of the interior of the submersible Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Atwater This piece is part of ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...

We’ve known for a while that Mars was once a wet world. But there’s always been a geological puzzle regarding how and where that water moved. On Earth, rivers are largely driven by plate tectonics.

We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But in Kenya’s Lake Turkana Rift, researchers recently found that as surface water levels dropped roughly 100 to 150 meters ...

Scientists have taken an important step toward solving one of the biggest mysteries in planetary science: why Earth is covered in moving tectonic plates, while its nearly identical sister planet, ...