Plate tectonics may have played a larger role in the evolution of life on Earth than we previously thought. | Credit: Nicholas Forder Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents ...

Chinese scientists studying lunar samples brought back the Chang'e-6 lunar mission have identified rare meteorite relics that ...

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Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Several structures, a.k.a. tectonic plates, seemed to be sitting there, untouched since the evolution of Earth billions of ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

What can sulfur in the Moon’s mantle teach scientists about the Moon’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in the Jo | Space ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

A massive, mysterious hole has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, and scientists are unraveling what lies beneath.