A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

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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?

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

Earth’s inner core is changing shape, scientists have found.

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

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...