Like tectonic plates colliding, humanism and the humanities are confronting movements that question long-held definitions of ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems ...

Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year, a staggering figure that would seem ...

They were two of the strongest quakes to hit Venezuela in more than a century. Quakes of 7.0 to 7.9 magnitude are considered ...

At the boundaries between tectonic plates, narrow rifts can form as Earth's crust slowly pulls apart. But how, exactly, does this rifting happen? Does pressure from magma rising from belowground force ...

One of the most active regions in the world is the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to the USGS, this region is where the ...