A high-resolution map of Mars's entire magnetic field provides new evidence that Earth-like plate tectonics - great crustal plates pulling apart and crashing together - underpin the red planet's ...

It's widely been believed that mountain formation and earthquake activity are solely the result of interactions at the borders between Earth's massive tectonic plates. Now, supercomputer models could ...

This information could help answer a fundamental question about our planet and could even help scientists understand more about the formation of other planets. A recent study from Penn State is ...

The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated movements that can be attributed to quite simple mechanisms. That is the short version of the explanation of a rift that began to tear the world ...