But there's something really weird about Venus. Though the hellish world has beautifully preserved impact craters on its ...

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

The North China Craton (NCC) is a very old and stable geological structure, experiencing deformations since the Mesozoic era.

New research reveals a hidden 1,500-kilometer impact structure on Venus, challenging our understanding of planetary impacts ...

Venus' wrinkled, deformed "tesserae" terrain may be ancient impact features the size of continents, a new study suggests.

The unique concentric rings and the tessera’s structure suggest that Venus’ early ... Mars had a thick lithosphere. The Moon had a thick lithosphere. Earth likely had a thin lithosphere when it was ...

Below the lithosphere, but still in the mantle, you will find the asthenosphere - the denser, weaker layer which lies between about 100-400km below the surface of the Earth. The lithosphere and ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.