The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

Scientists observed a mid-ocean ridge widen in real time, recording several metres of sea-floor motion and huge lava outflows ...