Earth’s largest mountains, over 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been found on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific Ocean, according to groundbreaking research published in the journal ...

But this famous peak pales in comparison to two secret mountains ... down from the surface in a process called subduction. In a new study, researchers found that the islands are much hotter than the ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Two hidden mountains, more than 100 times larger than Mount Everest have been discovered deep underground. The two ‘islands of rock’ each measure more than 620 miles / 998km tall, dwarfing anything ...

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that California is actually peeling apart below the surface, as dense rocks under the ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...