A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

Scientists reveal an underground ocean beneath Earth’s crust, holding more water than all surface oceans combined. The post ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have run new calculations, suggesting that Venus' outer crust could be experiencing convection—a process where heated material rises and cooler ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...