Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

This snail became the first animal living on deep-sea hydrothermal vents to be added to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—it also turns poisonous sulfur into armor ...

Located in the middle of the North Pacific, between Japan and Canada, lies one of the world's largest oceanic plateaus, the so-called Hess Rise. The plateau is roughly T-shaped and extends over a ...

Methana volcano looked dead for more than 100,000 years, yet magma kept building below ground. By dating tiny crystals, ...

Beneath our feet lie answers to questions about what Earth was like in the past. Fossils can tell us about what kinds of plants and animals were alive during different periods. Ice cores drilled out ...

Days after a 7.1 earthquake struck Searles Valley, California, a U.S Geological Survey crew scanning the area photographed huge swaths of surface rupture in July 2019. (Ben Brooks / USGS) (CN) — ...

The Nankai Trough just off southern Japan poses a severe seismic threat, with locked plates accumulating enormous stress. A ...

Earth’s mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a ...

Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the early stages of this geological process. The split would occur along the Kafue Rift, which ...