Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

Jan. 26, 2025, marks 325 years since the last great earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone. It’s a time to reflect on what we’ve learned about this largest fault system in the lower 48 states ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

Details are emerging about the plant, whose proposed location in the Atacama Desert is concerning astronomers.

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

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Two major tsunami that swamped the east coast have been labelled a "missed opportunities", so what do we need to change to be ...

Disaster movies used to be all the rage. Back in the 1990s, movie theaters were chock full of one disaster epic after another. Armageddon was a sensation, Independence Day remains an annual watch ...

A giant new telescope in Chile has opened its eyes for the first ... Scientists have billed it as the "world's largest digital camera." Rubin's first engineering image is a nine-panel square ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory has now been lifted after an earlier warning in the wake of a strong earthquake Monday off the coast of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, officials said. The U.S. Geological ...