How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

Two massive, mysterious structures have been discovered beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean, and no one knows what they are ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate ...

These techniques allow mapping its structure and better understanding its role ... where one plate plunges beneath another, and oceanic ridges, where new crust forms. Plate tectonics is fueled by the ...