No details have been released, but analysts and environmentalists fear it will pave the way for closer security ties and the ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Two Buried Supercontinents Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean Could Be Much Older Than Previously Assumed Earth has several ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

The long-ignored continent of Zealandia has now been mapped and officially recognized as Earth’s eighth continent. Stretching over 4.9 million square kilometers, most of Zealandia lies beneath the ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...