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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Beneath the surface of the Earth lie several tectonic plates - large slabs of rock that move slowly over time - at a rate similar to the growth of fingernails. Some of these plates move towards ...

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