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

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

NASA scientists have been tracking an alarming acceleration in landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in California, where ...

The atmospheric river storm hitting Northern California is set to bring heavy rain to the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, potentially triggering flooding. In the mountains, the National Weather ...

Santorini's earthquakes are intensifying as a rare earthquake swarm continues to rattle the Mediterranean's Aegean Sea. The ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The pursuit, which began just north of Elk Grove, reportedly ended with the shooting at 69th Street and Lemon Hill Avenue in Sacramento.

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake centered near the Maine coast rattled houses in northern New England on Monday and was felt by ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...

One is how it got there, with ideas that range from an abortive early form of plate-tectonics to various planet-shaping impact scenarios. The second is whether it served a function early in the ...