It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

A deep-sea expedition made the surprising discovery of a previously unknown ecosystem in which animals such as giant tube ...

Previously, scientists thought only microbes and viruses could live beneath the seafloor crust where tectonic plates meet.

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Magma is molten rock - rock that is so hot it has ...

in South America— the whole of that vast Plateau—is a single volcanic surface, composed of a solid crust covering a lake of molten matter. Such opinions, however, have nothing to do with a ...

Earlier this month, a fissure—a thin schism in the crust—opened in a remote, crater-filled area of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, on the slopes of the Kīlauea volcano. The outrush of ...

A volcanic tremor at Taal Volcano persisted for 10 hours and 30 minutes from Saturday, October 12, to Sunday, October 13, ...

Traditionally, textbooks have described the mantle as a viscous, well-mixed layer that shifts along with tectonic plates, ...

In late June, seismologists from ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) Zürich and the Hawaiian Volcano Observaory ...