KATHMANDU: An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 struck Nepal in the early hours of Saturday, National Centre for Seismology (NCS) ...

A fascinating new study has shaken up our understanding of Earth’s oceans. It reveals that around 15 million years ago, ...

Queensland researchers have a better understanding of the world's tectonic plate stress patterns caused by the underground ...

The researchers studied the video frame-by-frame using a technique known as pixel cross-correlation. This revealed that the ...

Zhang, M. and Zhang, G. (2025) Dynamical Mechanisms of Melt Migration Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges. Open Journal of Geology, 15, 358-376. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2025.157018 .

Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than ...

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

Scientists have uncovered shocking evidence that India’s tectonic plates are literally splitting apart.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video provides the first direct evidence.

Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep ...