Illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid impact, which took place 66 million years ago MARK GARLICK/Science Photo Library/Getty Images…
A circle running along the 27° east and 153° west meridians divides the globe into two halves with…
Computer simulations have uncovered a new manganese compound that could exist deep in Earth’s mantle and may be…
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the…

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the…
The fishing port of Kesennuma, Japan, in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles…