Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Related: How many tectonic plates does Earth have? Interactions between plate boundaries and liquid ... had hundreds of rocky planets, and all sorts of different conditions, we could probably ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...