By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

The audience was stunned. Atwater was the first person to use the newly revealed secrets of the seafloor to explain a ...

Venus may not have had Earth-like tectonic plates for the last billion years, according to the results of a new study. Instead, the planet, which is often referred to as Earth’s twin, may be covered ...

Hell, or something like it, may be a little closer than we thought. As a new study published in Nature Geoscience reveals, geologists at Cornell and the University of Texas have discovered a “hidden” ...