From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

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

There is so much salt that if you were able to extract it all from the ocean and pile it up on the land, you would be able to ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Due to tectonic plate movement, part of eastern Africa is slowly splitting apart, which could lead to the creation of a sixth ...

It’s called the Mid-Ocean Ridge, and it is just over 40,000 miles long. In contrast, that’s much longer than the longest mountain range on land, which is the Andes. While the Andes are ...

Though perhaps not well known to the general public, Axial Seamount is considered a key window into Earth's geology. Axial is ...

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). (Image Credit: Tao Yuan and Shijie Zhong) ...