Scientists have uncovered a massive ancient geological feature beneath the Midwestern United States — a billion-year-old rift valley that nearly split the North American continent in two. This ...

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually ...

“Our research suggests that a giant hot blob of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa, it is driving the plates apart and propping up the Africa continent so it is hundreds ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

Mountains rise, volcanoes spew, and Earth itself quakes as the crust constantly remakes itself in the ceaseless cycle of ...

New research suggests vast surface features on Venus called coronae continue to be shaped by tectonic processes. Observations ...

Templo has created designs inspired by tectonic plates for the British Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. The ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.