When you walk around on land, you are walking on top of Earth’s rocky crust. Below the crust is another thick layer of rock. These layers form Earth’s tectonic plates, and when those plates collide ...

Earth is speckled with mountains, from the slight Mount Wycheproof, rising 482 feet (147 meters) above sea level in Victoria, Australia, to the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, standing ...

Patrice Rey receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an ...

Home to deities, sacred grounds, and phenomena, mountains loom large in our imagination. Majestic, mysterious forms that hold the secrets of the universe? Or big, inscrutable rocks that take a lot of ...

Sapphires are among the most precious gems, yet they consist solely of chemically 'contaminated' aluminum oxide, or corundum. It is widely assumed that these crystals with their characteristically ...

Researchers said this suggests that a significant amount of gas pressure is building up below the volcano’s surface. The ...