The Appalachian Mountains, with their ancient peaks and timeworn ridges, are a familiar sight in Eastern North America. But ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

A 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath southern China sheds new light on Earth’s ancient tectonic ...

Geologists have found evidence of a 400-mile-long chain of extinct volcanoes hidden deep beneath the Sichuan Basin in the ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...