Africa rests on three tectonic plates that are all moving away from each other and this has already caused some changes that ...

Learn about Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory—how continents once formed Pangaea, evidence supporting it, and its link to modern Plate Tectonic Theory.

The Tibet is changing in real time, and researchers are trying to understand what is going on under the surface to have a ...

In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to ...

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...

On Wednesday, two strong earthquakes shook southern Japan, highlighting the region's ongoing seismic activity. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that both quakes measured a magnitude ...

On a seemingly ordinary Monday night, the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon experienced two notable earthquakes that rattled the region. The first quake, with a magnitude of 5.8, struck at 9:08 p.

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

One of the worst earthquakes in European history ripped through Portugal in 1755, causing a tsunami, fires and shaking that killed tens of thousands of people and caused widespread destruction.

Two researchers have attempted to calculate the probability that we are alone in the Milky Way. The result is quite clear.

“Underwater volcanoes during Snowball Earth played a crucial role” in the transformation of our world from frozen ice-planet ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...