Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries. With unprecedented clarity, researchers ...

Complex, intelligent life in the galaxy appears vanishingly rare, with the nearest possible civilization perhaps 33,000 light ...

The surface of our planet is a true geological theater where a permanent spectacle of movements and transformations takes place. These impressive phenomena result from plate tectonics, a ...

In Iceland’s Þingvellir National Park lies a dive site like no other — the Silfra fissure, where you can swim between two tectonic plates. Fed by crystal-clear glacier meltwater, Silfra offers surreal ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Disasters hurt most when we are unprepared or when those in charge fail to do their jobs, not when nature acts like nature ...

The disaster caused by a predicted large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could be compounded by shaking along the San ...

The mountain range has been sitting under the ice sheet for eons following a massive tectonic plate clash.

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Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

Several structures, a.k.a. tectonic plates, seemed to be sitting there, untouched since the evolution of Earth billions of ...