The Heard and McDonald Islands have no permanent human residents, but they are home to millions of penguins, seals, and other ...

Is Iceland calling your name? That mystical, otherworldly land of waterfalls, volcanoes, and hot springs is closer than you think—just one nonstop flight away from NYC on Icelandair. On today’s ...

About 2 hours from San Francisco, 3 hours from Oakland, and 5 hours from Los Angeles sits Pinnacles National Park. This ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile ...

A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile ...

A seismic swarm that caused 160 quakes in two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile earlier this week ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

The area around Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines was still under evacuation orders from an eruption in December​.