Rice University scientists use Hawaiian hot spot to study movement of Earth's poles

The crater measures more than 31 km in diameter, corresponding to an area bigger than Paris

Experiments show shifting ripple patterns can signal times of environmental flux

The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years

UMass Amherst analysis shows enigmatic pattern in San Bernardino basin is not typical

The British mainland was formed from the collision of not two, but three ancient continental land masses, according to new research

The event, also known as the Great Dying, occurred around 250 million years ago

A research team found that more than 700 fatal landslides that occurred between 2004 and 2016 had a human fingerprint

There may be more habitable planets in the universe than we previously thought, according to Penn State geoscientists

The dust that coats much of the surface of Mars originates largely from a single thousand-kilometer-long geological formation