The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the ...

Africa rests on three tectonic plates that are all moving away from each other and this has already caused some changes that ...

The interiors of rocky planets and moons tend to be pretty hot compared with their surfaces. This heat, which can be caused by a number of sources — such as tidal stretching and compression, the ...

A new ocean could soon be forming beneath us. Earth’s surface is a dynamic and ever-changing mosaic of tectonic plates, ...

The closest technological species to us in the Milky Way galaxy could be 33,000 light years away and their civilization would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. An earth-like planet’s ability to globally recycle its ...

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A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

Geologists think early Earth may have looked much like Iceland—where jet-black lava fields extend as far as the eye can see, inky mountainsides rise steeply above the clouds and stark black-sand ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study suggests that Earth’s hotter sister (Venus is roughly 100 times hotter than ...

We often affiliate plate tectonics with earthquakes, as we are all taught in school that the shifting of plates leads to big shakes. But plate tectonics serve a far more important job to the planet ...