The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

Scientists believed that Venus' crust was continuously thickening, in the absence of mechanisms like plate tectonics. However ...

A new study reveals fresh signs of geological activity on Venus — clues that the planet's mysterious surface is still ...

What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans. But what does that really mean?

This part of the planet plays a crucial role in shaping surface features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through ... The new global model revealed many previously ...

This southern zone of the Juan de Fuca plate is riddled with earthquake-prone faults—exactly like what you’d expect from the newly proposed model ... evolve in the future are zero.” ...

How did this happen? Though this perspective may seem unusual, perhaps we can take instruction from the geological theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits that the Earth’s crust is ...

For instance, the theory of plate ... up with a model, I like to try to kill the model,” Gernon tells Science’s Hannah Richter. This model, though, is “still alive.” Future research ...

This process, called plate tectonics, is responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean ridges and vast mountain ranges on Earth's surface. We know that other rocky bodies, such as Venus ...

Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics ... in our model, but does it really ...