Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

The reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise. The Earth's crust is like a puzzle, constructed out of many pieces: There are a few gigantic oceanic plates and many smaller ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...