Venus may not be the geologically quiet world scientists once thought. New 3D simulations show that huge rift valleys across ...

An amateur astronomer from Quebec spotted an unusual circular depression while planning a camping and road trip through the ...

Calculating a fossil's position throughout geological history is a complex process. In paleontology and other disciplines, ...

Marie Tharp's ocean floor maps proved continental drift real, but her discovery was first dismissed as "girl talk." ...

In schools across the country, geography has often been folded into other subjects. Even so, the facts we learned about ...

The dual earthquakes revealed how geology, corruption, and a longstanding humanitarian emergency amplified destruction across ...

Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped ...

Researchers have identified a single, continent-scale tectonic structure hidden beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented the process in action. By K. R. Callaway See more of our coverage in your ...

On 26 April 2024, deep beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean, a sequence of earthquakes shook the sea floor. This was the start of a sea-floor spreading event, in which two tectonic plates moved ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research, geologists still don’t agree on how they formed. “The continents started appearing around ...