Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

Zhan and his team have developed ways to measure this reflected laser light all along the length of the cables and deduce ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow the plates to move. Earthquakes occur when two ...

Zhan and his team have developed ways to measure this reflected laser light all along the length of the cables and deduce information ... within and between tectonic plates at depth," says ...