Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

The xeroplate is fastened to the cylinder of a special rotary printing press. In this, the image plate first passes under a ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from Colombia’s Universidad de Los Andes, led by Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte, ...

The East African Rift System, a significant fault line, is causing this division into the Nubian and Somalian plates. This ...

A team has developed a plastic surgical field expansion plate that can help surgeons during robot-assisted heart surgery.

New York State Police say the trooper was shot on the westbound Southern State Parkway in West Hempstead around 11:45 p.m.