By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

3D reconstruction of the Kangerlussuaq airport in Greenland, based on images from Sentinel 2A satellite (ESA) acquired on 2025, august 27. The topographical data used for this animation have been prov ...

No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

Up to 98 percent of Antarctica is caked in miles-thick ice sheets, some of which formed millions upon millions of years ago.

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

The Driftless Area Scenic Byway cuts a mesmerizing 144-mile path through a region that ancient glaciers mysteriously bypassed ...