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?

These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction. The plates do not move past each other smoothly.

But as far as we know, no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State ...

Plate tectonics explains the movement and interaction ... the the likely surface temperature range based upon a number of different types of world and found that, contrary to previous expectations ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

Susan Schwartz, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a lecture titled "Anatomy of a Megathrust Plate Boundary Through the Earthquake Cycle" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, ...

WASHINGTON - The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual ...

In the new study, the authors used a different approach for studying ... The findings could transform researchers’ understanding of plate tectonics and how plate movement might be shaped by ...