Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

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

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Continental drift of the North China Block from a tropical to subtropical arid zone contributed to aridification of North China between 290 and 280 Ma and delineated the wet-dry boundary across ...

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

The latest research contradicts previous studies that proposed the Indian landmass's collision with Eurasian plates as the ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

Scientists analyzing seismic data from southern Tibet discovered that the Indian tectonic plate is fragmenting as it subducts ...

A series of earthquakes struck southern Tibet on January 7, near the Nepal border. What exactly is an earthquake? Which countries are the most earthquake-prone? Why is the Himalayan region seismically ...

The Himalayas, Earth's towering mountain range, stand as the product of a slow-motion geological collision between the Indian ...

A team of geophysicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland has made a baffling discovery while analyzing earthquake waves to calculate the internal structures of the Earth. They found areas in our planet's ...

"Continental collision between the India and Eurasia plates ... this event was associated with a normal fault oriented roughly perpendicular to the plate boundary north of the Himalayan Mountains ...