How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in ...

Unlike other earthquake-prone places around the planet, California is overdue for a major quake, according to a recent study.

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous ...

Alan Collins receives funding from The Australian Research Council (he is an ARC Laureate Fellow), AuScope and the MinEx CRC. He also has funding from a number of State and Federal Government ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth's geological record ...

Map of the medium-sized Indian continental plate moving north Map of the medium-sized Indian continental plate moving north tectonic plates map stock illustrations Map of the medium-sized Indian ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

If the solar system’s hottest world, once had plate tectonics, maybe it was also capable of sustaining life long ago. New research has revealed Venus may have had Earth-like plate tectonics ...