"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Southern Spain sits at the heart of one of Europe’s most seismically active regions due to the slow but constant convergence ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled.

A major fault in central Turkey is defying decades of scientific belief, tearing the Earth open in a way no one expected.

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

Scientists say the undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, will move into the Atlantic after a long lull, with acceleration expected in about 20 million ...

Among all the planets in the Solar System, Earth stands alone. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics — a dynamic process that has shaped life, climate, and continents for billions of years.

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 forces shaping the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have long been a mystery to geologists. New seismic data, however, reveals an unexpected process taking place beneath the Earth’s surface. A ...

Scientists have captured an unprecedented glimpse of a subduction zone in the act of dying, where the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates are breaking apart beneath North America off the coast of ...

LSU scientists have discovered a subduction zone decaying near Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada that sheds light on how tectonic plates on the Earth’s surface evolve. A Science Advances ...