About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica.

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

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 ...

Professor McCloskey and his group rapidly analysed the M9.2 earthquake that triggered the Indian Ocean 2004 Boxing ... on one of the earth's great plate boundaries to the west of Sumatra in ...

Millions of Americans are under weather warnings or advisories today as the U.S. braces for a new winter storm this week. A ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Mount Everest’s crown as the world’s tallest peak may be slipping. Scientists are buzzing over a jaw-dropping ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

For a while, some scientists have suspected that the dichotomy is the product of a large and early impact; others have wondered whether a phenomenon like plate tectonics, which Mars is thought to ...

Earth’s largest mountains, over 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been found on the boundary between Africa and the ...