National parks bring a plethora of beauty for all to enjoy year-round, but not without the risk of rockfall at some popular ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Data from the USGS shows the seismic events have ranged in strength from 2.5 up to 4.2 in magnitude.

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

The finding "may be the hidden answer to more tectonic mysteries than we’ve previously realized," said geologist Adam Smith.

This aligns with preexisting estimates of when the river probably carved through the Uinta Mountains—creating a canyon that today is 2,297 feet (700 meters) deep—and joined the Colorado system. In ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC. (NYSE American: NG, TSX: NG) ("NOVAGOLD" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it has closed its previously announced upsized bought deal private placement (the “Offering ...

A massive volcanic event may have pushed Earth to the edge, wiping out nearly 90% of life in what remains one of the planet’s ...

MINERAL COUNTY, NV - According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.0 magnitude quake struck near Walker Lake Monday morning.

Foreign skepticism about U.S. reliability under Trump could undermine the success of the State Department’s inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial meeting this week.

A minor earthquake struck northeast of Indio early Sunday, Feb. 1, in the same area where a stronger quake shook the Coachella Valley in mid-January.