Recent research suggests that the Great Lakes originated from the Cape Verde hotspot under the ancient supercontinent Pangaea ...

A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

An international team of geophysicists says it has discovered evidence of a "lost world" hidden beneath the Western Pacific ...

"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten said.

Geologists from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology, studying the Earth's interior using seismic waves, ...

Writing about beer and brewing, Joshua M. Bernstein said he looks for “seismic shifts that people may have noticed ...

A trio of Earth and atmospheric scientists at the University of Houston, working with a geoscientist from the University of ...

A new book examines how fiber-optic cables installed in boreholes can monitor seismic activity, fluid flow, subsurface temperatures, and more.

Understanding Earth’s structure is key to unlocking its internal dynamics. Seismic tomography shows faster-than-normal wave ...

The year is just a week old and already things are getting shaken up. Meta Platforms’ announcement on Tuesday that it was ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...