Earth Science

Satellite images have captured the result of a lake of lava collapsing on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, revealing an…

Two years ago, a severe storm in Argentina produced hailstones reaching 9 inches wide, prompting meteorologists to…

Scientists have compiled the most comprehensive map yet of tectonic stress magnitudes across North America,…

Without plate tectonics, our planet wouldn’t have continents, mountains, and possibly even life itself. New evidence…

Scientists are attributing the 2018 Kilauea eruption, which destroyed hundreds of homes on Hawaii’s Big Island, to a…

Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano began erupting this past weekend. On Saturday, it spewed a stream of thick, white…

During the Cretaceous period, a balmy forest grew less than 600 miles from the South Pole, according to new research…

The ozone hole is the problem that never seems to ever go away. And now it turns out we have a second one to worry…

Seismometers around the world are recording the decreased seismic activity resulting from people staying home amid…

When a gigantic asteroid struck the Earth some 66 million years ago, it triggered an “impact winter” that…

During the Late Cretaceous, days were roughly 30 minutes shorter than they are today, according to chemical traces…

The appearance of large ice rings on Lake Baikal in southern Siberia has confounded scientists since they were first…

A collaboration between physicists and citizen scientists has led to the discovery of a previously unknown form of…

On Tuesday afternoon, a major magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Jamaica. The shaking could reportedly…

A 70-kilometer-wide (43-mile) impact structure in the Australian Outback has been dated to 2.2 billion years old,…

Scientists have new evidence in their quest to settle the longstanding debate about whether it was a gigantic…

Approximately one-third of Australia’s Kangaroo Island has been torched by recent wildfires, as new satellite photos…

White Island is home to New Zealand’s most active volcano. And on Monday, it erupted while tourists were visiting,…

A spectacular cirrus arc, which stretched from Nebraska to northern Minnesota and Canada, foreshadowed the recent…

The eruption of Anak Krakatoa in 2018 produced a tsunami that, for a short while, was somewhere between 330 to 492…