A shallow 6.3-magnitude earthquake left more than 30 people injured, damaged more than 800 buildings and caused widespread ...

Satellites passing through this area often experience malfunctions, with systems crashing, data corruption, and equipment failure.

Scientists have recently uncovered a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field off the coast of the Galápagos Islands, aided ...

When we think of Earth’s tallest peak, Mount Everest usually comes to mind, towering at 8,848 meters above sea level. However, the depths of our oceans hold mysteries just as vast and awe-inspiring.

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet’s magma creates continents – and may have even helped create ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates move apart forming new crust; and convergent ...