For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its magnetic field exists only in sparse patches. Its lakes and ...

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island ...

According to reconstructions of the Hadean impact history, early Earth was absolutely hammered by asteroids. The kinetic ...

Twin earthquakes like those that ripped through the region are unusual but not unheard of. Scientists are already gathering ...

Each year, Nevada's land mass expands by about two acres — the equivalent of 32 tennis courts — due to tectonic forces.

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Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But ...

Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the early stages of this geological process. The split would occur along the Kafue Rift, which ...

Earth’s mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a ...

Isotope analysis of gas from geothermal springs in Zambia could show that a new continental rift is forming, scientists say. Unexpectedly high helium isotope ratios indicate that a weakness in the ...

Days after a 7.1 earthquake struck Searles Valley, California, a U.S Geological Survey crew scanning the area photographed huge swaths of surface rupture in July 2019. (Ben Brooks / USGS) (CN) — ...