With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...

Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon's hidden ocean is like concluded that tectonic activity ...

A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses continues to widen at a rate of about 0.26–0.55 millimeters per year.

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...

This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how movements throughout the 36-million-year cycle of Earth’s tectonic plates have caused biodiversity ...

A comprehensive survey using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data identified over 1300 small mare ridges (SMRs) on both the near and far sides of the Moon, suggesting ongoing, albeit small-scale, ...

Recent advancements in seismology have shed light on the enigmatic triggers behind ‘impossible’ earthquakes, seismic events that occur in regions not typically associated with tectonic activity. These ...

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