Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

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

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

Ancient volcanoes in New South Wales created a rich deposit of precious rare earths – and left clues for finding more.

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

The Lost City Hydrothermal Field is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – and its towering spires that shoot out hot fluid are home to microbial life deep under the water ...

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake, with an epicenter 3 miles north-northwest of Oak Hill in the southern part of Jackson County, ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...