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 ...

An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form. Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle ...

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 ...

Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the ...

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 ...

Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 billion years have left an ...

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 ...

Dominos Japan has reintroduced its popular Volcano Pizza just in time for Halloween, now with spooky toppings. The pizza, ...