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

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

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

The series of quakes, which struck within a two-hour period, struck near San Ramon, about 30 miles east of San Francisco, a ...

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 ...

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

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

As if central Kentucky didn’t have enough to worry about with the snow and ice, apparently the ground itself is giving people frights. After Winter Storm Fern passed through the region this weekend, ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

The Friends of the Chessie Trail are planning four engaging and educational events over the coming months. First up will be the Winter Scavenger Hunt on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 1 p.m., with a sleet date ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...