An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems ...

Scientists find huge ‘magma systems’ inside Mars - Findings suggest that more planets could be habitable than we thought, ...

Scientists in a recent breakthrough have discovered vast hidden magma systems beneath the surface of Mars, marking an “unexpected discovery” leading the researchers closer to finding ...

An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet ...

The ocean looks like a fixed bowl, but scientists just found proof it spent 9 million years shrinking itself and pulling seas ...

Tectonic map of the Earth. The first continental crust on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago. Likely the first fragments formed by partial melting and re-crystallization of the primordial ...

Each year, Nevada's land mass expands by about two acres — the equivalent of 32 tennis courts — due to tectonic forces.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Earth’s crust continued a slow process of reworking for billions of years, rather than rapidly slowing its growth some 3 billion years ago, according to a Penn State-led ...