Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

The Heard and McDonald Islands have no permanent human residents, but they are home to millions of penguins, seals, and other ...

Zealandia is a geological outlier. It is by far the largest submerged continent and also the smallest recognized continent ...

A massive eruption of magma around 135 million years ago may have been the driving force behind the tectonic rift that split ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

The earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing Fault, is attributed to the movement of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in ...

The world's highest mountain range - the Himalayas - is a testament to the power of plate tectonics. Forced upwards by the gradual northward push of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate.

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) away. Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar ...

Geoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific Ocean – and they've discovered something quite peculiar. There are ...

The most fervent wish of Trump’s critics is that a shift in societal tectonic plates — when his supporters finally “come to their senses” — will cause voters to turn on the president.