The Moon, long treated as a geologically dead world, is producing seismic activity from sources that scientists are only now beginning to identify. Reanalysis of decades-old Apollo seismic records, ...

As PG&E’s aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant is up for a 20-year federal license renewal, one scientist cites new GPS data to suggest there’s a looming seismic threat from an active thrust fault ...

Once thought dormant, the Moon is now revealed to be a dynamic world. Cooling and contracting, its crust fractures, creating cliffs and generating measurable moonquakes. Recent studies confirm this ...

A new study shines a light on a system of earthquake faults in the San Francisco Bay Area that most residents don’t even know exists. The Foothill Thrust Belt faults are deep under Silicon Valley, and ...

A 2010 analysis of imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found that the moon shriveled like a raisin as its interior cooled, leaving behind thousands of cliffs called thrust faults on ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. National Air and Space Museum planetary scientist Tom Watters describes how Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is revealing previously undetected ...