Some large earthquakes may flip direction and “boomerang” back, striking the same area twice and reshaping damage patterns.

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

New maps issued by NASA detail exactly when and where skywatchers across the contiguous U.S. can see the upcoming total lunar ...

Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo.

The popularity of pseudoscience has long been a reality in our world, and a recent example is the viral The Great Awakening Map poster, which has gone viral on social media and online shopping ...

For a long time, people imagined the moon as a quiet, frozen world where nothing much happens anymore. But new research shows ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

Virginia Democrats are asking voters (in what will likely be a low turnout spring election) to change the constitution by abruptly rejecting the nonpartisan commission approach to redistricting that ...

Giulio De Leo, Stanford professor of oceans and earth systems and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, aims to decrease the transmission of schistosomiasis by lowering the ...