The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 jolted Tibet on Saturday. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the ...

This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...

New research reveals how rock strength plays a crucial role in erosion, shaping landscapes over millions of years.

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

People who know stuff tell us that the Appalachian Mountains are 1.2 billion years old. And here I am all fidgety waiting six ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

From 1 March 2025 to 31 August 2025, all new cars in Great Britain will have 25-reg number plates (eg – XX24 XXX). The system changes every six months, so the next change (75-reg) will be 1 September ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...