Scientists have revealed that an underground phenomenon in Oman changed the direction of India millions of years ago. Our country could have ended up in an altogether different place if it weren't for ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Glacial retreat caused a wave of volcanic activity in southern Chile as the last Ice Age came to an end, according to new ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...