In 1831, a mystery eruption occurred, causing a 1°C drop in global temperatures only recently identified in a paper by ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1925, a mountainside in the Gros Ventre Range in northwest Wyoming collapsed, unleashing ...

Through the Horizon 2020-funded IMPROVE project, European scientists are deploying cutting-edge tools to reveal the Earth's ...

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the ...

Back in 2003, when people still bought CDs in the waning days of the analog era, Meat Puppets singer-guitarist Curt Kirkwood, ...

The driving force behind this volcanic activity is believed to be the “Iceland Plume”—a deep, hot column of molten rock that ...

By using high-resolution fossil data and advanced computing tools, the scientists revealed that over 300 million years ago, ...

A Martian volcano breaks through the clouds in a spectacular image captured by the Odyssey orbiter. This unprecedented view ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

A research team led by Occidental College has identified a previously unknown symbiosis; deep sea spiders that cultivate and ...