THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Southern Spain sits at the heart of one of Europe’s most seismically active regions due to the slow but constant convergence ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

A major fault in central Turkey is defying decades of scientific belief, tearing the Earth open in a way no one expected.

Complex geodynamic forces along the Eurasian and African faults are slowly tumbling the Iberian Peninsula toward the Mediterranean.

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon.

A colossal Martian volcano defies everything we know about planetary geology. Hidden clues beneath its frozen summit hint at ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.