Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude struck Afghanistan's Hindu Kush region on Monday, the German Research Centre for ...

A remote mountain peak in Antarctica has stirred global attention thanks to its near-perfect pyramid shape. Tucked away in ...

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...