The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular - perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

It's attached to a spacecraft called the Europa Clipper, NASA's solar-winged, silvery probe built to study the intricacies of ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden ecosystem beneath hydrothermal vents on the seafloor, revealing life in volcanic caves.

For many years, scientists have believed that the Earth’s mantle – the layer beneath its surface – moves like a giant ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

Mount Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibetan and Sagarmatha in Nepali, is the world’s tallest mountain at 29,032 feet above ...

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's ...

The northwest is one of the most seismically active regions of the United States. Right below our feet is the meeting place ...

The world’s highest mountain is growing faster because of geology, or another g-factor Like a gawky adolescent who overnight adds inches in height, is Mount Everest, at an altitude of 8.8km, becoming ...