Just off a quiet Aegean shoreline, scientists have stumbled onto a seafloor landscape that looks less like a Mediterranean ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

Across astronomy and astrobiology, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Instead of assuming the galaxy teems with ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

The Iberian Peninsula is not standing still. A new geophysical study confirms that this massive landmass is slowly rotating ...

This 20-kilometer-thick anomaly isn’t tied to any known volcanic system and its mysterious origin could change Earth science ...

The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the ...

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

The dynamic forces that cause the movement and deformation of the Earth’s crust have been the subject of debate for decades. Recent studies, based mainly on the analysis of stresses, have suggested ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...