Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

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

Parts of the Southern California coastal community of Rancho Palos Verdes were shifting 4 inches closer to the ocean each week in mid-to-late 2024, NASA found.

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

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Can New Jersey's offshore wind industry survive another year of high interest rates, lawsuits and supply chain bottlenecks?

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 ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

Deep beneath Iraq, a long-lost oceanic plate is breaking apart, causing shifts that stretch from southeastern Turkey to ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...