Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Rock rheology governs the deformation of rocks in reaction to forces within the Earth's interior. Rheology is the scientific ...

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

Deep in central Australia, the Finke River may hold the record for being the oldest existing river on the planet. Estimated ...

A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake along a volatile Pacific fault has shaken the U.S. West Coast, triggering a brief tsunami ...

The quake, which struck near the Alaska-Yukon border on Dec. 6, has helped geologists confirm a decades-old hypothesis: it’s revealed a fault hidden beneath the earth's surface. The area has been a ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

The year that iceberg A-23A first broke away from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf, Ronald Reagan was president of the United ...

Dr. Valerie Cholet is a Professor of Kinesiology. She earned her doctorate at Penn State University and has taught in higher education for over 20 years. Her areas of specialization include Exercise ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...