Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

Is climate action a lost cause? The United States is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement for the second time, while heat ...

Most of Southern California felt the shaking from a brief sonic boom created by SpaceX aircraft Dragon returning to Earth on ...

Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived – the megatooth shark Otodus megalodon – was an ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

A new study in Nature reveals that Earth’s core may not be sealed shut after all. German geochemists have discovered traces of core-derived precious metals like ruthenium in volcanic rocks from Hawaii ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

“When the first results came in, we realized that we had literally struck gold,” Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...