Two major fault systems along North America's West Coast, the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault, may be more closely connected than...
Researchers made the discovery using a big-data approach that involved hundreds of thermal history models that have been published for Central Asia throughout three...
A powerful eruption at Indonesia's Anak Krakatau sent ash high into the atmosphere, disrupting thousands of flights and worsening air quality across parts of...
Mount Etna has fascinated geologists for decades. The towering volcano on the Italian island of Sicily is the most active in Europe, erupting several...
Researchers have uncovered a hidden feature beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan's devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami became so destructive. The...
Antarctica's four-foot-tall Emperor penguin may be the best-known member of the penguin family, but it is far from alone. Seventeen other penguin species live...
A rare CO chondrite meteorite was the probable impacter that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out 75% of Earth's species, including nonavian...
