Ancient fossil structures imprinted on rocks that were once deep beneath the ocean suggest the search for the first life on ...

The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Studies reveal that beneath seemingly tranquil mountains, magma boils in shallow layers, reducing volcanic warning time.

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

Oklahoma is home to over 30 waterfalls, the largest standing almost 80 feet tall. Turner Falls is located toward the state’s southcentral border. At 77 feet tall, the waterfall deposits into a natural ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to start raising a dam used to catch millions of tons of Mount St. Helens sediment that flows each year from the mountain into the Toutle, Cowlitz and Columbia ...

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the grinding edge of any modern tectonic plate boundary. For decades, geologists tried ...