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Researchers present the Venus Life Equation, a novel formula to approximate the possibility of life on Venus, shedding light ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Venus — a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes — may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington ...

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

Myanmar’s location between two tectonic plates – the India and Eurasia plates – places it at particular risk of quakes.

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

"There's good reason to suspect that in order to have intelligent life on an Earth-like planet, you need to have plate tectonics to regulate the climate for long periods of time," he said.