Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...

Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon's hidden ocean is like concluded that tectonic activity ...

This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of Kenya, turning it into a separate island ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.

Officials in Iceland have warned that adverse weather will likely affect their ability to monitor the tectonic activity caused by increased magma pressure under the southwest of the nation's main ...

New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how movements throughout the 36-million-year cycle of Earth’s tectonic plates have caused biodiversity ...

The Moon has long been considered a geologically dead world, its surface frozen in time for billions of years. However, a new ...

A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...

"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, based on our results." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s ...