SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously known.

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

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Huge plumes of ash have been sent 2.5 miles into the sky after a volcano erupted in the central Philippines. Mount Kanlaon is one of 24 active volcanoes in the south-east Asian nation. It previously ...

The continent called Greater Adria resurfaces in the scientific community, bringing with it a new way of understanding the Earth's movements. It was nearly 240 million years ago: Greater Adria had ...

Despite being tied together beneath the surface, these regions diverge sharply above it. Iceland and the Azores are ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

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 ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

The area around Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines was still under evacuation orders from an eruption in December​.

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many ...