First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

Beneath our feet lie two massive structures scientists can’t fully explain. New research links them to something far more ancient—and violent—than once believed.

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in northeastern Africa. Hot rock masses then flowed further north beneath the ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Nepal in the early hours of Friday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS) ...

The Africa–Eurasia plate boundary presents one of the world’s most varied and dynamic tectonic settings—encompassing subduction zones, strike-slip faults ...

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Nepal early Friday, as reported by the National Center for Seismology. The quake, occurring ...

A recent studypublished in Naturepresents compelling evidence of ancient planetary material buried deep within Earth’s mantle ...

School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China Hubei Key Laboratory of Naval, Architecture and Ocean Engineering ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.

far away from the usual seismic action seen at plate boundaries where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. But this new research shows that the plate isn’t as solid as once thought. It’s ...