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 ...

Mantle plumes—areas of unusually hot rock that can punch through the Earth’s crust to create volcanoes like the Hawaiian islands—have been thought to affect the motion of tectonic plates, but teasing ...

Significant changes in the motion of Earth’s tectonic plates has been found to occur less frequently than was previously thought. Seismologists have taken into account “noise” - the portion of data ...