Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

Yet this is one tricky puzzle to put together as the pieces made of the planet’s crust and squidgy-ish mantle, called tectonic plates, are always on the move. As they pull apart, crash together ...

On a quiet Friday, a big earthquake hit Myanmar, killing more than 1,600 people and causing a lot of damage. Buildings fell, ...

The Earth's crust is broken up into several pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. This formation is “mostly stable, but along the edges they are moving ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up ...

The earthquake, originating along the Sagaing Fault, was shallow, resulting in intense ground shaking, according to experts. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that nearly 800,000 people in Myanmar ...