Seventy-five tremors hit San Ramon, a small California city on 2. Here's what caused the swarm and why it isn't entirely ...

Shrinking lakes in Tibet likely woke up long-dormant tectonic faults, a new study finds. The findings strengthen the link between climate change and earthquakes ...

Scientists from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Aviation and Space Museum of the United States have found that the Moon continues to shrink as its interior cools. This leads ...

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only spotted five months ago. Unusually, the tracks date from the Triassic, the ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...

The past is fast losing its reliability as a guide to the future in an age of exponentially evolving AI. As error rates drop ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

There’s more to NOLA than Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. Our local contributor shares the best things to do outdoors—within ...