Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreated five miles in two months, 10 times faster than the previous record, with possible implications for the pace of sea-level rise.

A glacier in Antarctica just pulled off what might be the fastest retreat ever seen, and scientists are now scrambling to ...

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 ...

Researchers use lipid biomarkers to uncover how organisms survive in extreme ecosystems. A surprising variety of life exists ...

Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound ...

Extreme heat forged Earth’s continents billions of years ago, creating the stable foundation that made life possible.

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen ...

Chalmers researchers have developed a simple, light-based platform to study the mysterious “invisible glue” that binds materials at the nanoscale. Gold flakes floating in salt water reveal how quantum ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Oct 11 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Ethiopia on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said.

A recent act of forgiveness in the face of tragedy made national headlines. Erika Kirk’s bold witness in publicly forgiving her husband Charlie’s assassin prompted people to consider, “What does ...