Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

which all encircle the large Pacific Plate. The plates are constantly sliding past, colliding into, or moving above or below each other. This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic ...

Challenger Deep, the Earth's deepest point, lies in the Mariana Trench. Discover its extreme conditions, exploration history, ...

The new study reveals that the African plate and the Pacific plate have different chemical compositions and ages, parting ways with the old study, which proposed they are both similar in composition.