Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The huge column of hot rock, known as a mantle plume or a 'ghost plume', which rises from deep inside the earth beneath ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

A dramatic volcanic eruption occurred at Shinmoedake volcano at 2:01pm local time on July 3, captured from Takahara Town in Miyazaki Prefecture. The footage, a towering ash plume, possibly one of the ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...