Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

If real, that version of plate tectonics looks nothing like Earth's. But it shows the diversity of planetary geology that could lurk elsewhere in the cosmos. "In the end, understanding what causes ...

"It's kind of like a pot boiling on a stove," said ... "We don't really know when plate tectonics as it looks today got started, but we do know that we have continental crust that was likely ...

Geophysicist Barry Hirshorn—now with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego—was on ...

If the crust is brand-new volcanic rock, its chemistry will look much like the mantle from whence it came. If it is remelted and recycled by plate tectonics, this chemistry shifts. An influential ...

An international team of researchers organized through the Schmidt Ocean Institute is studying the Chilean margin, an area ...

Due to DNA’s complexity, scientists theorize that a simpler molecule preceded it billions of years ago during early life ...

Scientists discovered a shimmering polychaete worm in the Chile Margin, fascinating viewers and advancing ocean research.

When advocating for resistance to non-democratic ideas and processes, Friends of Stanfield Conversations member Dr. Andy ...