As you might have guessed, given that Hough is a seismologist for the USGS, the study she and her team recently published in ...

Earth's core is transforming, which could affect the length of our 24-hour day, Earth’s magnetic field and more ...

The highest potential for naturally occurring hydrogen is in the Midcontinent Rift system, which runs through central parts ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Scientists have identified an anomaly linked to the rise in beryllium-10 levels in ocean sediments on the Pacific Ocean floor ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

A new study has found evidence that the Earth's inner core may have changed shape. Far from taking place over geological ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

The landing site dates back to the same era when the earliest microscopic life forms began emerging on Earth.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...