Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

The project could bolster tribal land rights and serve as a model for partnership between scientists and Indigenous communities

El 28 de marzo, un terremoto de magnitud 7,7 sacudió el centro de Birmania, devastando comunidades y matando al menos a 3500 personas. El sismo también provocó que los edificios se tambalearan, e incluso se derrumbaran, en la zona turística de…

Many popular vacation destinations, like California, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Thailand and the Caribbean are in active quake zones. Here are tips for staying safe.

By pinpointing bomb craters and swaths sprayed with herbicides, analysis could help direct remediation and cleanup efforts

In September 2023, an unusual seismic signal raced around the world, zipping from eastern Greenland to Antarctica in less than 1 hour. The seismic waves continued to radiate worldwide for 9 days, ringing Earth like a giant bell. Now, scientists have…

Last summer, a team of scientists extracted their biggest sample yet of rocks from Earth’s mantle, the 2900-kilometer-thick layer of the planet sandwiched between Earth’s crust and core. Now, the first analysis of those rocks, published today in…

In a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, a lush, almost tropical oasis hides behind the home of Sean and Annie Jacob. Palm trees tower over the verdant lands. Cheery marigolds blossom in raised garden beds. And water invitingly ripples in an elevated…

On April 30, 2018, Kilauea, the dozing 1247-meter-tall volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, reawakened. Molten rock surged from a crack on Kilauea's flank, marking the start of its largest eruption in centuries. It would eventually expel enough lava to…

Each dramatic episode over the past few years has led to fresh geologic revelations, and researchers think another bout is on the way An eruption cracked through the silence of night last December 18 as molten rock burst from the ground of Iceland’s…

The towering peaks of the Himalayas are a geologic battleground—a slowmotion collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. The crunch began some 60 million years ago as India, then an island, plowed into Eurasia, buckling the surface and…

By Maya Wei-HaasContributing WriterJanuary 4, 2024astrobiologyearth sciencegeochemistrygeologygeophysicsmicrobesoceansorigins of lifeplate tectonicsAll topics Introduction Near midnight on March 26, 1961, dark waters lapped at the hull of a converted…

Following up a on study in 2021 of tracks found in New Mexico, researchers used more methods to bolster the claim that the tracks are up to 23,000 years old. Hidden within the seemingly barren expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico are…

Investigadores australianos dijeron que las coloridas gemas de la mina Argyle, que produjo más del 90 por ciento de las piedras rosas del mundo, pueden haber surgido cuando un supercontinente se dividió. Los diamantes rosas llevan la moda de Barbie a…

Australian researchers said the colorful gems of the Argyle mine, which produced more than 90 percent of the world’s pink stones, may have erupted when a supercontinent split. Pink diamonds take the Barbiecore craze to another level, but the rosy…

The observations from orbit suggest that a fault that had been inactive in modern times ruptured on Friday. Just before sunrise on Monday, a satellite peered down on regions of Morocco that had been damaged by an earthquake Friday night. The data it…

By Maya Wei-Haas and Constant Méheut Published as part of The New York Times live updates about the Morocco Earthquake On Saturday, the National Institute of Geophysics in Morocco reported the earthquake at a magnitude of 7.2, while the United States…

By Maya Wei-Haas Published as part of The New York Times live updates about the Morocco Earthquake Earthquakes in northern Africa, while not frequent, are not unexpected. Morocco is positioned at the juncture of a slow-motion tectonic crash between…

Get stories that capture the wonders of nature, the cosmos and the human body. Get it sent to your inbox. While diamonds might look pretty perched atop a ring, the rocks they hail from venture to Earth’s surface in a journey that’s anything but…

More than a year after a devastating eruption in the Canary Islands, a team is exploring a braided network of still-hot lava tubes. Scientists explore the lava tube they have dubbed the "Red Cave" for its rusty hues. Arturo Rodriguez A cone of light…