Earth’s magnetic field is easy to forget. It doesn’t make noise, it doesn’t flash, and it doesn’t ask for attention. Yet it ...

Measurements of seismic waves over many years suggest the Earth's core is deformed and reshaped by conditions of extreme heat ...

Maletsunyane Falls in the Lesotho Highlands shows how a river can erode deep valleys into uplifted lands. Jacques Marais via Getty Images Considering how long humans have been on Earth, it’s ...

Using an unprecedented amount of high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker—and continents far less rigid—than long-standing geological models ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing ...

Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology recently captured a beautiful lightning storm using a new high speed camera. The lightning in this video was recorded at 7,000 frames per second (fps) ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that part of the planet’s crust is breaking apart in what they describe as a geological “train wreck”. The findings centre on a subduction zone off the Pacific ...

Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. A ...