The paper’s lead author Dr Jordan Phethean, of the University of Derby, explained to Earth.com that his team’s findings indicate that “the North America and Eurasian tectonic plates have not yet ...

The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule ...

Buying local produce and keeping your scraps are some ways to make Thanksgiving more friendly for the environment.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of geoscientists offer innovative, updated perspectives of an iconic sedimentary ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R.

Earth’s surface is a dynamic, ever-changing landscape. Massive crustal plates shift, creating mountains, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. This process, known as plate tectonics, may be the ...

"Why is Earth the only rocky planet to have plate tectonics?" said Qian Yuan, lead author of that paper and a postdoctoral fellow in geodynamics at the California Institute of Technology.

White dashed lines are L-shell contours, which describe magnetic field lines; for example, an L-shell of 2 represents the magnetic field line that is 2 Earth radii away from the center of Earth at its ...