New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for ...

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 ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

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.

This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports reports the discovery of a remarkably extensive hydrothermal vent field on the shelf of Milos Island, Greece. The vents were identified during the METEOR ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

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 ...

Recent advancements in seismology have shed light on the enigmatic triggers behind ‘impossible’ earthquakes, seismic events that occur in regions not typically associated with tectonic activity. These ...

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 ...