The Himalayas are known as the Young Fold Mountains because they were formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

About 300 years have passed since anyone has known about Okinawa’s past climate and geological history. But researchers at ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

This past spring, Swanson passed the milestone of having 50,000 students take the class from him over the years. It’s a number larger than the population of the British Columbia town he grew up in. He ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

In a statement, Australia’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) have issued a red aviation warning, with local residents ...