A massive underwater canyon system in the North Atlantic, stretching over 500 kilometers, has baffled scientists for years. The King’s Trough Complex, a colossal and dramatic feature, was long thought ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...

The movement of tectonic plates may take millions of years, but in Northern Ethiopia, you can see it happen in real time. In recent years, the Afar region has been hit with earthquakes and volcanic ...

New findings published in the journal Science help explain why the 2011 earthquake off the coast of Japan created such a large tsunami. An international team of geologists and geophysicists drilled ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

For decades, scientists have grappled with a profound question known as the Fermi Paradox: if the galaxy is teeming with the potential for extraterrestrial life, why is the cosmos so quiet? A new ...