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

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

It is unclear what these structures are. If they were anywhere else, they could be portions of tectonic plates that have sunk ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

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 ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

Videos posted on social media show a wide, grey plume billowing high into the air as startled residents look on ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

From the sensation of the world shaking beneath your feet, to the fear of what might happen next, it doesn’t matter how many ...

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 ...