Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

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Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, an ancient oceanic plate is tearing apart, dragging the Earth’s crust with it. What was ...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake, with an epicenter 3 miles north-northwest of Oak Hill in the southern part of Jackson County, occurred on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The depth of the ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

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More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...