Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.
A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...
Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what that means for the planet’s history ...
The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...
Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...
MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...
In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...
Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...
A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for features that characterize the surface of the solar system’s hottest planet.Venus ...
Scenes of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake in a painting by João Glama Ströberle. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons An international study reveals for the first time a geological process never ...
Two earthquakes rattled the East Bay on Monday, raising questions about whether the seismic activity could be a warning sign ...