Roughly 80 percent of all volcanic eruptions on Earth happen underwater, far from any seismograph station or satellite camera ...

On June 6, 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day as they launched Operation Overlord to liberate German-occupied Western Europe. More than 4,400 ...

Roughly three-quarters of all volcanic activity on Earth takes place deep beneath the ocean surface, along chains of seafloor ...

Thick crust and wet lava around the Azores volcanoes may trace to ancient seawater stored 400 miles down and tapped by a ...

What: A discussion on the geological modeling and volcanic activity of the extreme exoplanet K2-141 b. Guests: SETI Live host ...

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...

The long, puzzling dwarf planet Ceres, in reality the first named asteroid, has surface features that are much more complex ...

For decades, the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs has stood as the defining catastrophe of the Cretaceous ...

The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it ranks among ...

Geological mapping remains one of the mining industry’s most important tools, underpinning everything from mineral ...

In a remarkable geological find in Italy, a delicate clay layer was uncovered, marked by unusually high levels of iridium—a rare element on our planet but frequently found in meteorites. This ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...