Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University shows that these ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

Deep within Earth's mantle, scientists have uncovered mysterious structures in places they shouldn’t exist. These “sunken ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

However, the most subtle of all these eruptive forces is the mud volcano—a geologic process that’s rare in North America, but ...

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

A series of earthquakes struck southern Tibet on January 7, near the Nepal border. What exactly is an earthquake? Which countries are the most earthquake-prone? Why is the Himalayan region seismically ...

The Himalayas, Earth's towering mountain range, stand as the product of a slow-motion geological collision between the Indian ...

Specifically, they found areas in our planet's interior that appear to be the leftovers of submerged tectonic plates deep ...

As reported on the news, a moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 on the Richter scale struck portions of Bangladesh at ...