Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

In these seams where the plates meet each other, magma from Earth's mantle has the opportunity to rise to the surface. The subducting plate, melting as it sinks deeper into the mantle, also ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.