New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe.

A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Maximum temperatures will exceed the April average by around 10 degrees in both Melbourne and Adelaide for several days ...

This Saturday and Sunday mark the fifth weekend in a row Boston has seen rainy weather. Is it bad luck, or are we stuck in a ...

Spring is just getting started, but parts of California and the West are already flirting with summer-level heat as an ...

Saturday will dawn with areas of fog and some patchy drizzle. By afternoon the day should be mainly dry, and a few peeks of ...

Another round of raw, rainy weather is set to soak much of South-Central Pennsylvania. Thursday will see light rain and showers much of the day and into the evening. But Friday is an Impact Day, ...