Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

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

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

When the supercontinent Pangaea split into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana approximately 195 million years ago, the ocean plate was formerly the seafloor of ...

DOGE has turned this dangerously flawed view into a philosophy of government. Last week, Elon Musk’s makeshift agency fired ...

The 3.9 magnitude earthquake hit at 4:18 p.m. on the Olympic Peninsula, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

This earthquake is larger than much of the recent seismic activity around western Washington, per initial reports.

Take U.S. fisheries, for example. Fishermen and NOAA have worked for decades to restore U.S. fisheries to sustainability.

Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental plate. When enough stress builds, the fault will rupture, releasing a ...