Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

Credit: Nicholas Forder Earth's surface is a turbulent place ... Only Earth has jigsaw-like tectonic plates that crash together and pull apart like bumper cars. The other rocky planets in the solar ...

Rolling elevation on the East Coast, like the Appalachian Mountains, are a record of past seismic activity. Think of the way ...

The mountain range has been sitting under the ice sheet for eons following a massive tectonic plate clash.

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the seafloor.

"This is not a sudden discovery, but a gradual realization." ...

Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what it means for the planet’s history ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...