A massive M 7.1 earthquake hit off the coast of Japan on Saturday, February 13, 2021. Japan is an earthquake-prone country that lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire and has historically experienced great...
Read MoreAccording to a new study on the kinematics of the East African Rift System, much of the continental regions are currently splitting with Madagascar being gradually separated into pieces. East African...
Read MoreAccording to a new study, a crater on Mars has experienced extensive floods around 4 billion years ago. Whether Mars was ever occupied with water and potentially with some primitive types of life is...
Read MoreScientists studied the impact of underwater mountains dragged into subduction zones and the geodynamic processes that occur near them. Sea-mountains are geologic formations that rise at least 1000 me...
Read MoreBased on research from data collected with the MESSENGER spacecraft, NASA believes that Mercury is tectonically active. If correct, this makes Mercury the only tectonically active planet in the solar...
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