Recent scientific findings have unveiled a remarkable geological phenomenon occurring deep beneath the Pacific Northwest. The ...

A surprising new discovery of the Jinlin crater in Southern China is clarifying how celestial objects collide with Earth.The ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

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

There's a fragile trade war truce. But Beijing may have given Trump less than it seems — and still has the leverage ...

We don’t often think about gravity, the invisible force that anchors us to Earth, as it always seems constant and dependable. However, it will slightly vary, sometimes by enough to make you weigh ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

Talc reveals a phase of superhydration in cold subduction, demonstrating that the ocean sends more water to the depths of the Earth.

On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and ...

All complex life on Earth may be the result of plate tectonics tearing apart the ancient supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...