Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 struck Pakistan, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. Earlier in the day, another earthquake of 3.9 magnitude struck the region at a depth of 10km.(AFP file ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would have to be at least 280,000 years, and possibly millions of years, old if ...

Mojtaba Rajabi leads the Australian Stress Map project and serves as deputy head of the World Stress Map project. His research on Australia’s stress field is supported by the Australian Research ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

The problem of the driving source and power mechanism of plate motion remains a major scientific issue in urgent need of resolution. Based on the isostatic hypothesis model proposed by G.B. Airy in ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from ...

On Earth, the land moves. Over millions of years, continents shift and the entire surface of the planet reshapes itself. The driver of all this is plate tectonics: Earth’s surface is divided into ...