The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

In the Viking Sky cruise disaster, a massive storm left the ship drifting towards disaster. A desperate evacuation and a race ...

The retreat of winter and the emboldening of summer rarely interact peacefully — their wars are waged violently, unleashing ...

Imagine a world where the Americas were not connected—a time when wild Pacific waters crashed against scattered islands, and ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

The Argo program collects data vital to global weather forecasting and developing seasonal scale forecasts like El Niño and La Niña, for producing drought forecasts across the U.S., and for mapping ...