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V-shaped topographic basins radiating from central Antarctica could be remnants of of the continent's deep geologic history.

This biologist—also a rancher and Air Force veteran—finds solace in horses as she studies how to grow plants on the Moon.

Is the Pioneer Fragment really stuck to the Pacific plate beneath a part of North America that’s extremely seismically active?

Seismic data show how Alaska's Columbia Glacier launches icebergs into the sea.

The fertilized mantle lithosphere may play an important first step in the formation of carbonatite deposits, known to host critical minerals.

Seismic imaging below the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona provides clues about the history of eruptions there.

Knowing how much the ground will shake requires a good model of seismic velocity.

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

Duplicating artifacts that preserve records from biblical times is a lucrative business. A method used for both dating artifacts and reconstructing Earth’s history could identify phony pieces.

A new study offers tantalizing evidence that filamentous fungi extending from roots, along with treated astronaut waste, could provide sufficient scaffolding to help plants grow in planetary regolith.

Comparing seismic data and drone imagery near a churning lava lake shows the signal of bursting bubbles.

Model catalogs quarry blasts, heavy machinery noise, and other anthropogenic signals that can muddy seismic data.

No single map of sediment thickness across the conterminous U.S. existed that used a consistent method — until this new one based on Transportable Array seismic data.

The Tatun Volcano Group rises near the Taipei metropolitan area — home to more than 7 million people. Though no record exists of eruptions in human history, recent seismicity indicates that these volcanoes might be growing restive.

In the first week of October in 2023, earthquakes struck in a cluster near submarine volcanoes off Japan, producing a tsunami.

Atomic Dreams explores nuclear energy's future in the U.S. through the history of Diablo Canyon, California's last operational nuclear power plant.

A recent study of the hidden seismic hazards within the Golden Triangle region of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar found new faults and interesting patterns in the depths of the fault motion.

Could a set of local railroad ghost stories be related to small, understudied earthquakes?

Seismic imaging can map out hidden weaknesses around salt caverns used to store oil and gas.

Carbon credits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsetting greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.