"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled.

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

Scientists have captured an unprecedented glimpse of a subduction zone in the act of dying, where the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates are breaking apart beneath North America off the coast of ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would have to be at least 280,000 years, and possibly millions of years, old if ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

new video loaded: Trump’s Tariffs Are Part of a ‘Tectonic Plate Shift’ in the Global Economy transcript Peter R. Orszag, the C.E.O. of Lazard, discusses how markets are reacting to the uncertainty of ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet’s magma creates continents – and may have even helped create life. In ...