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

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

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

The following is a listing of all home transfers in Monmouth County reported from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2. There were 157 ...

A long-duration atmospheric river is set to bring moderate to heavy rain in northern and central parts of California, but ...

Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean is expanding at a rate of about 1.5 inches annually due to a massive ...

Mostly sunny skies and above-normal temperatures will remain persistent. A high-pressure Ridge is responsible for pushing temperatures to above-average extremes over the following seven-day period.

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

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

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 ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...