When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

One year ago today, a total solar eclipse graced the skies of North America, as the moon fully blocked out the sun a narrow ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

And that was part of my experience, but at the same time, I moved to the United States, in 2008 and during that election, and there’s all this conversation in America about hopefulness and about ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab ... An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles (201 km) depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth.

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...