Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

New evidence collected by China's Zhurong rover makes a compelling case for the existence of ancient oceans on Mars.

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

Gideon Futerman was visiting the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in the summer when he spotted Google's car-mounted ...

The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 ...

The new outsized little show at the Arts Center of the Capital Region has a perfectly convoluted title: “Little Brown Jug + Dig Deeper: [some] Art, Science, and History of Troy Clay.” It mixes soils, ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 was recorded near Borrego Springs Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Efforts to map groundwater, expand research and analyze water data are getting an injection with state and federal grants. The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology announced Tuesday its New ...

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is mapping areas vulnerable to cold lava floods originating from Mount ...