When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish suddenly. Despite advances in technology, predicting when earthquakes will ...

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

Several international flights from Indonesia’s resort island Bali were cancelled after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

The mantle of the Earth, up to 1,800 miles (2,900 kms) thick and 84% of the Earth's volume, was assumed to be a simple ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

With Spurr rumbling near Anchorage, let's look at some of the largest eruptions in the most volcanically active state of the ...

These mountains are made of extremely dense and ancient material, giving scientists valuable clues about the Earth's early ...

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

Scientists have identified two enormous mountains hidden deep beneath the Earth’s surface, each standing an extraordinary 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) tall—more than 100 times taller than Mount ...