Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Far below the forests of New England and the skyscrapers of Manhattan, a vast pocket of overheated rock is slowly rising ...

Deep down, beneath the icy edges of the Greenland Sea, a remarkable and previously undiscovered geological and biological ...

Greenland appears at first glance to be fixed and unchanging, with clear borders on maps and solid land beneath the ice, but science tells a different story. Over time, Greenland is slowly changing ...

This 20-kilometer-thick anomaly isn’t tied to any known volcanic system and its mysterious origin could change Earth science ...

A long-lost fragment of Earth's crust has just been uncovered beneath the icy waters near Greenland—rewriting what scientists ...

The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...

The Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains formed millions of years ago. Within both of them lies a fascinating world of rocks, gemstones, crystals and minerals. Here's how to start identifying them.

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

New earthquake and satellite data show how the Eurasia and Africa plates are impacting each other, and what consequence ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about 5% of the ancient terrain. Because of this small footprint, it would be ...