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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of the daily lexicon, and an endless stream of media reports assert that AI either has affected or will affect most aspects of human life. What is AI and ...

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 ...

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

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans.

A massive gravity anomaly beneath the Indian Ocean, known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low, has baffled scientists for years.

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 ...