"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

After modeling Europa's conditions, the researchers concluded that its rocky seafloor is likely mechanically too strong to allow for tectonic and volcanic activity. Jupiter's moon Europa is among the ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research based on data gathered more than 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission.

This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of ...

The Moon has long been considered a geologically dead world, its surface frozen in time for billions of years. However, a new ...

Officials in Iceland have warned that adverse weather will likely affect their ability to monitor the tectonic activity caused by increased magma pressure under the southwest of the nation's main ...

The outermost layer of the Earth is the crust. The continents sit on continental crust, which covers about 41 percent of the surface of the Earth; the remainder is covered by oceanic crust. The ...

A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...

This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s ...