A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Antarctica is home to many mysteries, but one of the strangest is an enormous 'gravity hole' deep beneath the ice. Now, ...

Turkey could be on the verge of a devastating earthquake triggered by a fault line that remained invisible for the longest ...

Off the rugged north coast of California, one of the most seismically volatile corners of the United States is yielding a new and unsettling secret. By tracking swarms of earthquakes far too small for ...

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the grinding edge of any modern tectonic plate boundary. For decades, geologists tried ...

Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

Precious metals may be escaping from the planet’s core. This hotly debated subject could help us understand Earth’s evolution and determine whether life exists elsewhere in the Universe ...

The planet won’t look like this forever. A future supercontinent could unleash brutal cold, rising heat, and even a wave of ...

Launched in 2012, the popular two-nation Alpe Adria connects existing bike paths with redeveloped long-abandoned railway ...