Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a variety of geological wonders that are not seen elsewhere.

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

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

It is found in the depths of Indian Ocean and named as the gravity hole or Indian Ocean geoid low, an anomaly where gravity ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Residents in Garachico in Tenerife are being asked to take part in a week-long drill in September to prepare them for Mount ...

For decades, scientists believed that magma chambers beneath volcanoes were transient, forming before an eruption and then ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi ...