This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

Earth’s crust is divided into huge, rigid tectonic plates that move across its surface. Their slow motion powers earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, and drives the endless reshaping of continents.

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several million years, experts say. But the driving force behind the ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

THIS jaw-dropping moment is the first time ever that a rupture in the Earth’s crust caused by an earthquake was caught on ...

A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.

The video captures a ground rupture, the ripping of Earth's crust all the way up to the surface ... The Myanmar quake occurred on the Sagaing Fault between the Burma and Sunda tectonic plates, two ...

Scientists have confirmed the existence of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, largely submerged for over 100 million years.

Scientists discover gigantic hydrogen reserves dating back a million years beneath mountain ranges, boosting clean and ...

Venus may not have Earth-style tectonic plates, but it’s far from geologically quiet. A new model shows its crust is ...