If your dream vacation involves fins and a splash, you're in for a treat. This lineup of snorkeling destinations covers ...

Taking a soak in a thermal spa might seem a much-needed break, worlds away from the relentless election campaigning, but they ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

The Southern Alps is a mountain range located in the South Island of New Zealand. The range stretches for approximately 500 ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

A seismic swarm that caused 160 quakes in two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile earlier this week ...

The 205-mile-deep hidden mantle zone under the Caribbean could reshape our understanding of Earth's interior.

Two powerful earthquakes jolted and devastated Myanmar, causing widespread death, destruction and dislocation for a country ...

The deadly Myanmar earthquake last week was the biggest among a number of smaller quakes that rocked the region.

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...