The Mount Vinson, part of the Vinson Massif in the Ellsworth Mountains, is the Antarctica's highest peak, standing at about 4,892 meters.

For the first time, scientists have directly witnessed a subduction zone -- the place where one tectonic plate plunges beneath another -- in the midst of breaking apart. The finding, published in ...

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck in Argentina Tuesday northeast of Aconcagua, data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows. The quake rattled parts of the Andes in both Argentina and ...

We finally know where two giant blobs in Earth's middle layer came from — and they're a mismatched pair. These strange regions in Earth's mantle, known as "large low velocity provinces" (LLVPs), are ...

At the moment, most geophysicists in the world hold the opinion of the stability of the size of our planet throughout its existence. Obviously, without understanding the essence of Mr. Einstein’s ...

The North Coast is a shaky place. The USGS catalog lists 28 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger in the coastal areas of Northern California and the adjacent offshore area since 1950, outstripping the ...

This study is led by Prof. Zhong-Hai Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences). The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates ...

The Gibraltar subduction zone’s slow activity, revealed by new research, indicates it may soon accelerate and contribute to the closing of the Atlantic Ocean, marking a significant phase in the ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...