Researchers have conducted CT scans of their mummified remains, previously found high up on modern-day Peru’s Ampato and Sara ...

When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

The complaint in federal court in Boston says parks focusing on "Latinx people, LGBTQ+" get the "most visitors." ...

Kilauea entered a dramatic new eruptive phase inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, sending lava high into the air and producing a towering volcanic plume. The event on February 15 marked the latest ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction.

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

Costa Rica's Museo Nacional announces a groundbreaking fossil discovery in Cartago, including remains of a mastodon-like ...

Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...

There are plenty of life-affirming moments… but nothing snaps you into “I am alive” quite like a bungy jump. The funny thing ...