"As the lithosphere thickened and dripped below the region, it formed a basin at the surface that later sprang up when the ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Picture the Earth’s crust and you most probably think of dense, dry rock. You don’t imagine a goey, honey-like substance ...

The eruption at Sundhnúkur in Iceland has been going for over 10 months and we're starting to understand how the magmatic ...

Everest has gained roughly 15-50 m in height due to this change in the regional river system, with the Kosi river merging ...

Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi ...

Starting at the surface, you would have to dig nearly 2,000 miles before reaching the Earth’s core. No one could survive that ...

Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing.

Satellite data revealed the Konya Basin in Türkiye is sinking due to crust dripping, where parts of Earth's crust fall into ...

Mount Everest has grown an additional 15 to 50 meters due to the erosive forces of the Arun River. This erosion triggers ...

River erosion in its environs explains why the world’s tallest mountain is up to 800 meters higher than the other towering ...

Mount Everest is 15-50m taller than it would otherwise be because a river is eroding rock and soil at its base, helping push ...