“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

A newly-dated geological timescale will help scientists connect NZ’s deep past to present day hazards, climate change and ...

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that ...

Scientists from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Aviation and Space Museum of the United States have found that the Moon continues to shrink as its interior cools. This leads ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck near Portugal’s capital Lisbon on Thursday, but did not appear to cause any injuries or significant damage, the ...

With recent earthquakes felt in parts of Dorchester County and the Midlands in recent weeks, we look at the history of ...

Beneath the rolling surface of the North Atlantic, the seafloor drops into a chasm so vast it rivals, and may even exceed, the Grand Canyon in scale. Known as King’s Trough, this hidden scar has long ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

ATLANTA — We spend a lot of time in our cars, so it makes sense that we had to make them as close to our personalities as possible. Every year, hundreds of people submit their requests to customize ...

A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the continents are less rigid than scientists previously thought. This finding is ...