Just days after eastern Connecticut experienced a series of minor earthquakes, Yale University announced Yale-led research may have solved the mystery of why tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s ...

Ancient rocks in Australia suggest Earth’s tectonic plates were already moving 3.5 billion years ago, reshaping understanding ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time. The study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, was ...

They're the towering limestone stacks that draw visitors from across the world – and now scientists have finally worked out how Australia's iconic Twelve Apostles were formed. The immense structures, ...

Scientists at the University of Melbourne have uncovered for the first time how Australia’s iconic Twelve Apostles were formed, finding tectonic plate movements over millions of years lifted and ...