Our understanding of our own planet is still changing and a relatively new theory about how plate tectonics works. Researchers are now looking at evidence to sort of redefine oceanic plates, ...

A recent study has pinpointed the origin of a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption,' shedding new light on Earth's intricate ...

A massive underwater volcano, Axial Seamount, 300 miles off Oregon’s coast, may erupt soon after over 1,000 daily quakes and ...

Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

Deep beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, nearly a mile underwater, one of the most fascinating volcanoes in the world is ...

For years, scientists wondered whether the southern Pacific Ocean's Louisville hotspot ... or pushed, under tectonic plates in the Pacific region," Finlayson said. "We had to sample deeply ...

Scientists have used GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying ... as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans. Experts say the Southern Ocean was formed about ...