Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a major driver of shifts in the Earth's climate, as we know all too well in our currently warming world. But it also works the other way – in the past too little ...

Computer simulations have revealed that a hostile, tidally locked exoplanet located roughly 45 light-years from Earth is capable of hosting tectonic activity on a massive scale. Tectonic activity is ...

Astronomers have been intently studying an exoplanet called LHS 3844b for many years. Back in 2019, researchers announced that they believed the planet was covered by dark lava rock. Researchers ...

This artist’s illustration represents the possible interior dynamics of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 3844b. The planet’s interior properties and the strong stellar irradiation might lead to a ...

Rocks don’t appear to do much. But over millions of years, chemical reactions involving rocks can have a tremendous influence on Earth’s climate. Now researchers have amassed evidence that tectonic ...

Much of the brittle, upper crust of Venus is broken into fragments that jostle and move – and the slow churning of Venus’ mantle beneath the surface might be responsible. My colleagues and I arrived ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Seismology has revealed much of the basics about earthquakes: Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As for ...

"There's this assumption that the moon is long dead, but we keep finding that that's not the case." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

This artist's illustration represents the possible interior dynamics of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 3844b. On Earth, the heat generated from the radioactive decay of elements in Earth's mantle ...

Far from being the serene world that we may imagine when we look up at the night sky, the moon is restless. Tectonic activity makes moonquakes a regular occurrence, according to a paper in Nature ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A new statistical analysis of 260 million years of geological ...