You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low ranks as the largest negative "gravity hole" anomaly on Earth, which is why the “thumbprint” jumps ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

A massive, mysterious hole has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, and scientists are unraveling what lies beneath.

Recent scientific investigations have revealed that a significant portion of Earth’s crust has disappeared over millions of ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in ...

Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...