Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...