Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles didn’t just erode into existence—they were slowly pushed up from the ocean floor by ...

Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, ...

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Last Saturday at 9:49am local time, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurred about 50km west of Gympie in Queensland. The earthquake was experienced as strong shaking locally, but did not produce any ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried ...

Rising to 8,849 meters (29,032 feet), Mount Everest—called Sagarmāthā in Nepali and Chomolungma in Tibetan—is the tallest mountain on Earth. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Mount Everest’s towering height ...

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Beneath the geysers and steaming ground of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the most studied, yet still elusive, volcanic systems on Earth. Unlike most volcanoes that form along shifting tectonic ...

A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a ...