Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Oct 29, 2025, 03:16pm EDT Nov 01, 2025, 01:11pm EDT For the first ...

But scientists have debated for decades when this shift began. Some theories suggest that Earth’s crust was a single, rigid ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking observation, scientists have for the first time witnessed an undersea “slow slip” earthquake unzip in the Pacific Ocean. This event reveals that a tectonic plate is slowly breaking ...