Earth Science

There’s a new big ‘berg floating around Antarctica. The European Space Agency said Wednesday that a huge chunk of…

It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their destructive capabilities; splitting the atom means…

The steady march of time has caused Darwin’s Arch—an iconic rock formation in the Galápagos Islands—to collapse.

A spring break assignment for geology students has resulted in the discovery of radioactive isotopes in honey…

An estimated 4,000 tons of debris—including rocks the size of cars—has collapsed onto a beach along Dorset’s…

On Friday, the small Caribbean island of St. Vincent became the epicenter of the seismic world when La Soufriere…

Asteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in…

New basalt just dropped. An international team of scientists drilled nearly a mile into the Pacific seafloor and…

Rain and sunlight are the key ingredients of rainbows, but many other environmental factors are required to…

Billions of years ago, parts of Greenland were a molten sea, a sharp contrast to the pale-blue ice seen there today.…

An iceberg more than 20 times the size of Manhattan split off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica this week…

Many miles off the western coast of the Americas, an undersea cable connects Los Angeles, California to Valparaiso,…

Stunning new evidence suggests the Arctic Ocean was covered by a thick layer of ice and filled with fresh water on…

In March 2016, a research team dropped 39 seismometers to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the western tip of…

The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, most of them unpleasant, but it will also be remembered for being…

The world’s largest free-floating iceberg appears to have lost its northernmost section, a possible result of it…

As if we needed more upsetting right news right now, geologists have reason to suspect that a cluster of Alaskan…

Iceberg A68a—currently the world’s largest iceberg—is rotating and possibly moving in a westerly direction away from…

Using radar and other ice-penetrating instruments, scientists have detected a “fossil lakebed” preserved beneath the…

A gigantic pool of magma emerged beneath Earth’s surface following the impact event that wiped out all non-avian…