A switch from a humid to a dry climate has led the Eastern African Rift Zone to pull apart more freely, new research finds.

Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

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Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are ...

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Potassium is volatile and can easily vapourise under extreme heat. The study suggests that the Moon’s far-side mantle ...

A group of Chinese researchers revealed that the volatile loss from the lunar mantle was induced by the giant impact that ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...