The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...

Think about a mountain that keeps getting taller but never explodes. This might sound impossible, yet it happens more often ...

New images from ESA's Mars Express reveal Olympus Mons' colossal scale and intriguing features. Frozen lava tongues cascade ...

Yellowstone National Park, created in 1872 in the USA, is the oldest national park in the world. Learn why it was established ...

Crane games are so ubiquitous in Japan that they feel like something that’s always been a part of the country, like the arcade landscape equivalent of Mount Fuji. But much like how there was no Mount ...

Beyond the crowded squares of Prague and the tourist-packed canals of Venice lies a secret Europe, a collection of ...

Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest.

The images, captured by the Mars Express orbiter, reveal the volcano's southeast flank with hundreds of overlapping lava ...

Sergio Melendro was among hundreds of children missing after a volcanic eruption devastated Armero, Colombia, in 1985 and his ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...

The world is filled with beautiful places, but some landscapes go far beyond beauty, they border on the unbelievable. From ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...