Large earthquakes cause the planet to resonate like a giant bell, sending seismic waves rippling through the planet.

Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted ...

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Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding ...

A number of studies have given us fascinating images showing Yellowstone’s magma reservoirs. But how are those images created ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

And we see that seismic waves slow down there ... Earth's mantle is the engine that drives all these phenomena. Take, for example, mantle plumes, which are large bubbles of hot material that ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...