Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

The tectonic plates under health and social care are moving again with the abolition of NHS England ... as functions were initially divided up into new bodies and then subsumed into a single behemoth.

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

But recent findings are shaking up that belief ... features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through slow-moving convection currents. Scientists have long known that ...

The lithosphere is broken up into what are called tectonic plates. In the case of Earth ... plates ride on the asthenosphere. These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between ...

A scientific analysis of samples collected on the surface of Mars shows the red planet has evolved its own version of a carbon cycle. The cycle has helped to create life on Earth, but why not on Mars?

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...