For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

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 ...

NASA’s breathtaking space photo reveals the hidden beauty of Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, a 2.5-billion-year-old geological ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

A convergence of volcanic eruptions, seismic clustering research, and overdue fault lines has scientists paying closer ...

When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million years ago far away from the sinking zone. How this ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.