Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Now, researchers have connected 49 seismic events to impact craters, proving that meteorite strikes leave distinct seismic ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

For decades, scientists believed that magma chambers beneath volcanoes were transient, forming before an eruption and then dissipating as the volcano quieted. However, new research suggests that large ...

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

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

ATHENS, Greece — Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection minister to call a meeting with local and disaster ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and colleagues revealed that Hawaiʻi’s two most active volcanoes ...