Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

The intersection of religion and science is visible at the observatory. A plaque of St. Emidius, whose name is traditionally ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Scientists have predicted that Earth will undergo a mass extinction in 250 million years, with extreme heat and rising CO2 ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...