Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

Geothermal energy is a reliable, low-emission power source that can repurpose abandoned oil and gas wells. New engineering ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Wondering how this summer’s blistering heat or last winter’s bone-chilling cold snap compared with previous ...

How to predict when Ruapehu might next erupt is an important, but difficult, question. A group of researchers thought: why ...

THIS is the incredible moment researchers uncover one of the world’s longest set of dinosaur tracks – at a UK quarry.

You are in that mood when you badly need something sweet, but the idea of the recipe having a gazillion steps or ingredients ...

There’s a place in eastern North Carolina where 90-foot cliffs rise dramatically above a lazy river, where cypress knees create natural sculptures along shorelines, and where the changing seasons ...

The campsites provide a front-row seat to one of Texas’s most spectacular natural shows, where sunrise and sunset paint the water in colors that would make a professional photographer weep with joy.

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

At a recent gathering of community groups, a city council member, students, and climate activists, the talk was all about ...

A piece of a suspected rocket found on fire in Western Australia highlights the growing problem of space junk – and how ...