The Danakil Depression lies at the junction of three tectonic plates, creating a hostile environment so intense that NASA scientists study it to understand how life might exist on Mars.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer, more flexible upper mantle layer. Earth’s lithosphere is ...

Tectonic map of the Philippine Sea Plate, highlighting the different microplates that formed as a result of oceanic spreading at different spreading centers.

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 ...

The Danakil Depression, the hottest place on Earth by year-round temperature, is a striking landscape of vast plains, colorful rock formations, and steaming hot springs. Formed by the separation of ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the most inhospitable places on the planet, boasting scorching temperatures of up to 50C and bubbling pools of acid ...

Is India splitting apart? Gap in tectonic plates widening, say geologists Uncover the secrets of the Himalayas' formation as scientists reveal the Indian Plate's hidden movements, plate ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...