Seismologists at Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly Niwa and GNS Science) have been monitoring a cluster of earthquakes off ...

Three movies made of The Lord of the Rings trilogy in the early 2000s were filmed in New Zealand by director Peter Jackson. They garnered nearly $3 billion at the box office and 17 Academy Awards.

Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known the inner core is solid thanks to the pioneering work of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, who first proposed its ...

The most extreme and spectacular parts of New Zealand are found in the South, where you can feel the icy breath of Antarctica, see the Southern Lights dance in the sky overhead, a ...