An enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Researchers at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology are monitoring signals of magma movement within the ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the Earth’s planetary formation.

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...