Back in the day (and by that, we mean around 230 million years ago), there used to be one big supercontinent called Pangea ...

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

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

India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated fragments of Pangea. This ocean is entirely gone today, although the ...

Scientists project that Earth's continents are slowly drifting towards each other and will merge to form a massive ...

Africa’s tectonic activity is slowly splitting the continent, potentially creating a new ocean in about 50 million years.

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

A new study suggests Earth’s next supercontinent could trigger a mass extinction, making most of the land uninhabitable.

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

Extreme temperatures in future may potentially lead to the first mass extinction on Earth since the dinosaurs, a new study ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

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