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…
For decades, geoscientists looked beneath the Earth’s surface as if peering through frosted glass. Today, a revolution in…
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision…
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…
Coincident with the rise of the dinosaurs, a large landmass filled most of the Arctic circle, potentially contributing…
The ice floe cracks up around the Endurance Royal Geographical Society After the British ship…
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised –…
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised –…
A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by…