Discovered by scientists in 2000, more than 700 meters (2,300 feet) beneath the surface, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field is the longest-lived venting environment known in the ocean. Nothing else like ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

Neighbors in Garfield Ridge have a big mess to deal with, after a car crashed into a house on the Southwest Side.

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as extension continues along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...