Imagine compressing the entire 4.5-billion-year history of Earth into just 10 minutes. In this fast-paced, visually stunning journey, we take you from Earth’s fiery formation to the rise of modern ...

In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially ...

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

Earth’s surface tells a complex story, shaped not only by visible forces like tectonics and erosion but also by hidden mantle ...

A new study found rare metals, including gold, leaking from Earth’s core to the surface through volcanic activity.

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

Water changes everything about the way a planet works.” With those words, Graham Pearson, a foremost expert on deep Earth ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

Could it be that the alchemists’ long-elusive dream — transmuting the worthless into the sublime — has at last been realized?

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Col. Terry Connell was at his downtown Portland church’s Sunday service on May 18, 1980, when Mount St. Helens erupted.