Conspiracy theories on the internet attribute these fossils to everything from a 'great flood' to a prank of Gandalf monster. But the mystery is quite simpler.

For years, scientists studying earthquake risk in northwestern Turkey have known where the North Anatolian fault runs but not ...

A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large ...

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the tri-county on Feb. 7, followed by other small quakes across South Carolina in recent ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

Using an unprecedented amount of high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker—and continents far less rigid—than long-standing geological models ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

In Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness, two spaceships meet to study a black hole. Their research comes to an abrupt halt, however, when crew members start dying horribly, says Emily H. Wilson ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Petersburg officials say there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to the city’s flooding problems, a key takeaway from a public meeting that wrapped up nine recent walking ...

New satellite data shows Tibet’s plates flow like a liquid. India-Eurasia collision pushes eastern Tibet eastward by up to 25 ...