A study published in Nature Communications suggests that Europa’s rocky seafloor is likely too mechanically strong to support ...

Jupiter ’s moon Europa, long considered a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life due to its vast subsurface ...

In Earth's deep seas, tectonic activity creates hydrothermal vents, where hot water reacts with rock to supply chemical ...

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 ...

Recent tectonic thrusting played a major role in shaping Mars, according to a study at odds with the commonly held view that no such activity has ever taken place on the Red Planet. An area of rumpled ...

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 ...

Tectonic activity has been detected on the moon by researchers who have discovered a system of moving ridges topped with boulders on its near side. "There's this assumption that the moon is long dead, ...

A new study has revealed that tectonic activity on Venus may have caused sections of the planet's upper crust to become fragmented into smaller bodies that, over vast swathes of time, barge past each ...

A false-colour image shows tectonic plate boundaries in the world's ocean floor. A fault off the southern coast of Italy has been found to be active NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific ...

The Earth's tectonic plates started moving more than 3.2 billion years ago - just over 1.3 billion years after the Earth first formed and earlier than originally thought. The outermost shell of the ...

Scientists have reconstructed the movement of plates that led to the formation of the Pacific Plate Kim Westerskov/Getty The Pacific Plate formed 190 million years ago and for the first time, ...