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

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

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

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Kumani Bank mud volcano has produced transient islands multiple times since its first recorded eruption in 1861.

The outermost layer of Earth, the lithosphere , is composed of solid rock and is broken into large sections called tectonic ...

It’s notorious for its megathrust earthquakes, powerful seismic events that occur where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another, releasing colossal quantities of energy. If the Nankai ...