When you walk around on land, you are walking on top of Earth’s rocky crust. Below the crust is another thick layer of rock. These layers form Earth’s tectonic plates, and when those plates collide ...

Scientists have long wondered how volcanoes formed in central Anatolia despite being far from tectonic plate borders—now they've found evidence of a hot plume of magma flowing from East Africa. Riders ...

Whether they are above ground or below the ocean’s surface, mountains not only reveal the continually shifting nature of the Earth, they also profoundly affect weather conditions, contain diverse ...

March 29 (UPI) --A merger of many ice volcanoes form Pluto's two mane mountains, a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications reveals -- and what they've found suggests the planet is an ocean ...

A recent study published in Geology has uncovered a vast chain of fossilized volcanoes buried beneath the Sichuan Basin in southern China, a find that could reshape how scientists understand Earth’s ...