Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Chilean authorities issued a tsunami warning for the country's southernmost region Friday morning and both Chile and ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of ...

Analyzing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

A new study from the University of Maryland traces a 120-million-year-old “super-eruption” to its source, offering new ...

Olive Mullet reviews the book 'Adventures in Volcanoland' by Tamsin Mather in the latest Up and Down the River column ...

A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.