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 ...

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 ...

If you just want to study the ocean, pick any university. But if you want to explore it, film it, tag it, cross it — choose Rutgers University–New Brunswick. At its Department of Marine and Coastal ...

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

Out of 75 coronae examined, 52 showed signs of these underground forces still at work, hinting that tectonic activity may be ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity ...

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

Venus may not have Earth-style tectonic plates, but it’s far from geologically quiet. A new model shows its crust is ...

The NYC space is where the term ‘black hole’ was coined and where James Hansen became famous for his warnings about climate ...

Venus has a crust that is all one piece, with no evidence of subduction caused by plate tectonics like on Earth.

In contrast, Venus has a crust that is all one piece, with no evidence for subduction caused by plate tectonics like on Earth ... "This gives us a new model for how material returns to the interior of ...