Three of Venus's largest rift valleys are widening right now — or stopped doing so so recently that the geological evidence is still fresh. That finding comes from the first high-resolution, ...

When a rift is young and actively spreading, material beneath the stretching crust pushes up broad ridges on either side of ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest feature on Earth's surface. It is also, geologically speaking, slowly disappearing.Scientists say the vast ocean basin is shrin ...

Across a matter of days in 2024, the seafloor in part of the Indian Ocean dropped by about 13 feet, and roughly 5.7 billion ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and possibly changed Earth’s history.

Venus is generally described as a geologically frozen planet. However, the shape of several large valleys shows that tectonic ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway ...

The Ark Season 3 arrived on Syfy on July 29 with a premiere that buries an alien artifact storyline grounded in real ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study has proposed a connection between a specific collision in the main asteroid belt and an inner-solar-system-wide bombardment episode that may have had ...

Venus tectonic activity may still reshape the planet, as new 3D models reveal young rifts, raised flanks, and clues to ...

Asteroids, Meteorites, and Humanity’s Long Fascination For thousands of years, people have witnessed meteorites falling from ...