Explore the future of Earth in 250 million years, diving into plate tectonics and the formation of Pangaea Proxima. Discover ...

How does the planet Venus resurface itself? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: ...

Researchers have developed the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) to assess which planets can maintain ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet's heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASA Magellan spacecraft data from decades past, Anna Gulcher, an ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown type of earthquake that can begin as deep as 55 miles underground.

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water may flood it in a few million years ...

Deep beneath our feet, Earth may be running a planetary imbalance that has been unfolding for hundreds of millions of years.

American seismologists have confirmed the existence of a rare class of seismic events — earthquakes in the Earth's upper ...

An international team of geologists has reconstructed the history of the Euphrates' origin and found that about 5.35 million ...

The Red Sea is a deep, rocky tectonic basin that cannot be reshaped into a new canal. No feasible engineering, environmental ...