Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various ...

Geologists studying Easter Island recently opened up another mystery centered around the famous region. A team from ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form. Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle ...

Nadja Drabon’s team at Harvard paints the most compelling picture to date of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...