Planetary scientists have produced the first global map of small mare ridges on the Moon, adding new evidence that the lunar surface has been reshaped in geologically recent times by tectonic forces ...

The epicenter sits on ancient faults that run through the southeastern US, remnants of tectonic activity from hundreds of ...

Open an atlas and look closely at the world map. Notice how the eastern coast of South America seems to match the western edge of Africa. It almost lo.

We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has ...

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that ...

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the Bering Sea at a depth of 45km on Monday, the National Center for Seismology said. The region lies along the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire”, where ...

Scientists have mapped thousands of young tectonic ridges across the Moon, showing it is still slowly shrinking. These ridges may mark previously unknown sources of moonquakes.

Scientists from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Aviation and Space Museum of the United States have found that the Moon continues to shrink as its interior cools. This leads ...

Credit: NASA. The dark plains of the Moon, known as maria, were once thought of as a geological retirement home. These vast ...

For a long time, people imagined the moon as a quiet, frozen world where nothing much happens anymore. But new research shows ...

Seventy-five tremors hit San Ramon, a small California city on 2. Here's what caused the swarm and why it isn't entirely ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the ...