Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

This left a gap in the fossil record, but Petrified Forest National Park didn’t get its name for nothing: The volcanic ash that burst from California’s Mojave Desert ended up in northeast Arizona’s ...

Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker, he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrimsdottir is an Icelandic photographer.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Dehradun: Scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) have found that parts of Arunachal Pradesh in the eastern Himalayas saw intens.

The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

A volcanic eruption in Iceland forced the evacuation of the Blue Lagoon spa and the town of Grindavík as lava is flowing ...

Climate change feels like a contemporary issue, but the Bay of Fundy tides have roots in changes that happened at the end of ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Damien Gabet went to Wales to join a mind-expanding retreat about the science of time, with New Scientist Discovery Tours ...

The history of time, and a touching family connection, brought Damien Gabet closer than ever to rural Wales During the war my ...