Far below the waves of the Pacific Ocean, cameras on a research vessel recently swept across something that looked impossible ...

Just off a quiet Aegean shoreline, scientists have stumbled onto a seafloor landscape that looks less like a Mediterranean ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

The review took place against the backdrop of the sustained policy push by the Government of India over the past decade to ...

What is beneath the continent of Africa? There are two big structures down there that do not seem to be from our planet, Earth. Africa has a lot of th.

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

Geothermal energy delivers constant power using heat from beneath the Earth. Here’s how it works and why it matters.

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would have to be at least 280,000 years, and possibly millions of years, old if ...