Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy. The ...

Brenden Bobby is taking a week off, but he’ll return soon. Oil has been big in the news lately, and specifically the vast oil ...

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A major fault in central Turkey is defying decades of scientific belief, tearing the Earth open in a way no one expected.

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

An earthquake rattled northern Taiwan on Saturday, but damage appears minimal in the capital, Taipei. As Nikkei Asia notes, ...

What makes a mountain grow, and what keeps it from reaching unimaginable heights? Mount Everest, rising 8,848.86 metres above sea level, offers a case study in the interplay of tectonics, erosion, ...

On 8, Japan’s Meteorological Agency announced that a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan, injuring 20 people and triggering tsunami warnings ...

Taiwan was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sunday (local time) as locals in the capital, Taipei, reported intense tremors. The quake struck near Yilan County, with the Japan Meteorological Agency ...

Among all the planets in the Solar System, Earth stands alone. It’s the only one with active plate tectonics — a dynamic process that has shaped life, climate, and continents for billions of years.

An unprecedented observation of a major geological process is currently taking place off the North American coast. For the first time, a scientific team has documented the progressive fragmentation of ...