New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning over the catastrophic damage which could be caused by an impending ...

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed during the Hadean eon, would have a ...