Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

A Lake Older Than Mountains Lakes, like mountains, can last millions of years. However, most lakes are short-lived in ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate ... has revealed much of the basics about earthquakes: Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually ...

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Friday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

These mountains are made of extremely dense and ancient material, giving scientists valuable clues about the Earth's early ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...