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

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

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

Why? Because the earth beneath it is moving. Every year, the tectonic plates in the area around Golan Heights shift between 0.3 and 0.6 inches. That means Ruim el-Hiri, located about 10 miles east ...

The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

Maine is not typically associated with significant seismic activity, making Monday's earthquake all the more unusual. Most ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new ... Here's a look at Live Science's news and features related to this constantly moving jigsaw puzzle.

Plate tectonics is a theory that explains how Earth’s lithosphere—its upper mantle and crust—is split into sections called plates, which move. These movements create mountains, volcanoes and ...

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?

Layers of lava build up over time, creating volcanoes. Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the Earth’s crust which can move towards, away from, or alongside one another ...