The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; ...

In this video, we take a detailed look at plate tectonics, the scientific theory explaining the movement of Earth’s ...

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?

Immediately offshore the Kamchatka Peninsula is the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, a tectonic plate boundary where the Pacific Plate is being thrust beneath the Okhotsk Plate.