Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

It has been thought that plate tectonics were a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus don't experience such movements of crustal plates, but ...

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their ...

Their findings, recently published in Science Advances, suggest that early continental crust likely formed through deep Earth processes called mantle plumes, rather than the plate tectonics that ...

“Share a Plate” began with one person making extra food and asking who else might need a plate. It’s since become a Facebook movement in the Mechanicsburg area, with more than 500… ...