Scientists' discovery of giant mantle structures reveals deep Earth mysteries beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. The post ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have run new calculations, suggesting that Venus' outer crust could be experiencing convection—a process where heated material rises and cooler ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

Geodynamics refers to the processes by which mantle convection shapes and reshapes the Earth and other rocky planets. Its study includes plate tectonics, volcanism, the chemistry of lava and ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...