Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

Missions will study everything from water on the Moon to the transformation of our universe after the big bang and ongoing ...

Flash flooding and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java have killed at least 21 people and damaged villages and rice ...

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features ...

Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.

The greatest supervolcano on Earth, a geological giant with enormous destructive potential and an unmatched promise for ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

Bárðarbunga volcano in the north of Iceland could be waking up after an earthquake "swarm" was reported this week.