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

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, witnessed numerous active volcanoes erupting ...

Learn what frost quakes are, why they happen, and why they sound like sudden booms.

Few places on Earth show such extreme contrasts in such close proximity. This episode explores how tectonic forces shaped New Zealand from the volcanoes of the North Island to the glaciers and peaks ...

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

Using an unprecedented amount of high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker—and continents far less rigid—than long-standing geological models ...

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...