Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

Everything for Peggy Wolf’s 100th birthday on Sunday was perfect — the cards, the gathering of family and friends, the celebratory lunch. It all went off without a hitch, except for when Wolf lost her ...

A colossal 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked central Myanmar in March 2025, marking the strongest quake in over a century. What ...

Scientists break down the reasons why days are getting shorter—and the mystery they're still trying to solve about Earth's ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say ...

Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

Just over 4 billion years ago, magma from Earth’s mantle infiltrated a fracture in the young planet’s primordial crust. Over the following aeons, nearly all of the planet’s early crust ...

Earth’s oldest rocks may be at least 4.16 billion years old An unconventional dating method aims to settle a dispute over the age of some Canadian rocks ...

Earth Science Ancient Rocks in Canada Are Almost as Old as the Earth Itself Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Google rolls out Street View time travel to celebrate 20 years of Google Earth Google Earth wowed everyone 20 years ago, and it's still pretty cool.

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...