Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.
Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...
A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...
Scientists have discovered massive structures deep inside Earth, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. These structures are ...
Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.
A massive underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount could erupt soon, completely reshaping the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...
In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...
About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica.
Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, ...
Taiwan is one of the most seismically active places in the world, and one of the most advanced when it comes to earthquake ...
These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...