tectonics
New Observations Just Drastically Changed What We Know About Venus
Scientists discovered tectonic motion on our sister planet in observations from a spacecraft that died there decades ago.
The Atlantic Ocean Is Getting Bigger, And Scientists Now Think They Know Why
The Americas have been drifting apart from Europe and Africa at a rate of four centimeters a year, and a new study has revealed the dramatic processes at play.
Scientists Are Studying Areas of Earth Where Time Is Mysteriously Missing
In mysterious rock formations known as "unconformities," millions of years of Earth's history are missing. Now, scientists have the best idea yet as to why.
Pakistan’s New Island Is Flammable and Temporary
Hundreds of miles from the earthquake's epicenter, a mud volcano surfaced in the ocean.
Evidence of a Lost Micro-Continent Has Been Found Buried Under the Indian Ocean
The fragment, called Mauritia, is thought to have previously been connected between what became India and Madagascar.
Seeing the Strangest Light Before the Earth Quakes
What shook out deep below San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906, went unseen. Yet the magnitude-8 earthquake killed untold thousands of civilians (and displaced hundreds of thousands more) and left the city in flaming ruins, under short...