Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump is a transformative figure in contemporary American politics. Despite being impeached twice, ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that North America and Europe might still be connected via tectonic plates, challenging the ...

Inside the belly of planet Earth, a giant solid ball of metal is surrounded by a swooshing layer of liquid iron and nickel, ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study the earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust ...

Recent research from Curtin University has unveiled groundbreaking insights about the Ninetyeast Ridge — the longest straight ...

Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) have discovered a new geothermal reservoir in eastern ...

"It has been hypothesized that because plate tectonics is important for moving carbon and water around on long time scales, it might be important for how life evolved on Earth." Moving continents are ...

In a historic milestone for marine and geological sciences, China officially commissioned the Meng Xiang, the nation’s first ...

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.