North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Understanding the Ring of Fire The Ring of Fire is an extensive area in the Pacific Ocean where numerous earthquakes and ...

New Zealand straddles the boundary of two major tectonic plates and is rattled by thousands of small earthquakes every year. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake levelled swathes of Christchurch in 2011, ...

Fossil fuels are created from life — they're the transformed remains of plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Dartnell suggested that plate tectonics are a crucial ...

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever ...

Dig deeper: Earthquakes are less common on the eastern than on the western edges of the U.S. because the East Coast does not lie on a boundary of tectonic plates.

Jenkinson watched horror films and trawled the dark web for footage of real-life torture and murder which experts believed desensitised her to violence almost ‘goading’ her into copying acts ...

Adolescence is not based on a real story but there's several real life events that have inspired the tragic situation that unfolds in the show. Netflix's Adolescence has taken the streaming ...