A scientific analysis of samples collected on the surface of Mars shows the red planet has evolved its own version of a carbon cycle. Scientists studying soil samples from NASA's Curiosity rover have ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural ... This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and ...

In the 60s up to 100,000 plates per month were smashed and more than fifty workshops were established employing around 1000 people to cover the needs of partygoers and their plate smashing. Eventually ...

The finding challenged widely held beliefs regarding the formation of continents and the onset of plate tectonics, and it offered evidence that much of the early crust was extracted from a core ...

Earth's tectonic plates shape continents and life, yet mystery surrounds their origins. Researchers used models to ... suggesting our understanding of early tectonics needs a rethink. Research ...