SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously known.

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

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

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

The bunching of the land by plate tectonics was followed by intense erosion, which wiped away any sediment covering the colorful layers. Luckily for modern visitors, there is no vegetation to ...

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

Aiming to create a tool that is consistently fast and accurate, the team developed a new surrogate model using a deep learning technology called graph neural networks. The researchers first ...

Highly Accurate Blood Test Diagnoses Alzheimer's Disease, Measures Extent of Dementia Mar. 31, 2025 — A newly developed blood test for Alzheimer's disease not only aids in the diagnosis of the ...

The weak points in the earth’s crust are mostly found at the boundaries of tectonic plates… At constructive boundaries - usually deep under oceans - plates are being pulled away from each other.