The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

Presently,the trail of devastation now spans five continents, with the latest seismic activity striking Iceland. A powerful volcanic eruption has shaken the Nordic nation, sending ash clouds into the ...

Last week’s earthquake only compounds Myanmar’s decades-long disaster of misrule by corrupt and brutal generals.

On April 5, a significant seismic event occurred off the coast of Papua New Guinea, with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reporting a 6.9 magnitude earthquake. This earthquake struck at ...

Two back-to-back earthquakes of magnitudes 5.2 and 5.5 shook western Nepal on April 4, causing widespread tremors but no ...

Though the April 5, 2024 earthquake was felt throughout NJ and beyond, scientists say most earthquakes in the state are too ...

Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) refers to land formations sculpted by relentless desert winds. Whistling past the jutting, silent ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.