The Hidden Architecture of Earth's Interior Earth's structure resembles a giant onion with distinct layers, each playing a ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

A swarm of at least six earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 2.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological ...

The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles ...

A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

A strong, 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:44 a.m. Japan time about 71 miles northeast ...

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the country’s northeast. The quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main ...

The Bermuda Triangle may not be the biggest mystery of the Atlantic. In a new study published in the journal Geophysical ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...