A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes ...
The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...
Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...
In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...
Earth’s green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.
Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...
Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...
Several studies have predicted that not all geomagnetic reversals have been discovered, but it was unknown in which periods they might be hidden. Researchers led by the National Institute of Polar ...
On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...