Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The following is a listing of all home transfers in Monmouth County reported from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2. There were 157 ...

A long-duration atmospheric river is set to bring moderate to heavy rain in northern and central parts of California, but ...

that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is involved actively in plate tectonics more than ever thought before. "This work refutes long-held assumptions that mid-ocean ridges might play a passive role in plate ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, one of the most active lava lakes on Earth, offers critical insights into active geological processes like those at mid-ocean ridges. New technology, including GPS devices ...

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