Volcanoes across the country are beginning to wake up and erupt, and no one has a good explanation for why it's happening.

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet.

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

As magma stirs beneath the surface, a notorious Icelandic volcano threatens to awaken once more, sending ripples of fear through nearby towns and retreats.

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Tectonic action is splitting Africa apart to produce a new ocean, according to University of Southampton scientists who have investigated unusual pulses emanating from beneath the continent that are ...