Scientists have discovered sudden underwater blackouts that can plunge the seafloor into darkness and threaten marine life.

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination's biggest problems ...

Planet Earth has a way of crafting landscapes that seem to belong in a science fiction movie rather than on our own home soil. From stones that move on their own to mountains that look like chocolate ...

“You have the potential for truly enormous eruptions, possibly up to 10,000 cubic kilometers erupted in a single event,” Leif ...

Far below the waves of the Pacific Ocean, cameras on a research vessel recently swept across something that looked impossible: a neatly paved, bright yellow path, as if a road crew had been at work a ...

Not even the strongest microbes can survive volcanic eruptions, but they are capable of returning surprisingly quickly, according to a new study. Reading time 3 minutes Microbes have a penchant to ...

When James Cameron unleashed the first Avatar back in 2009, it was a revolutionary moment for film. I remember walking out of the theater feeling as if I had actually visited another planet. It was my ...

Life has a way of bouncing back, even after catastrophic events like forest fires or volcanic eruptions. While nature's resilience to natural disasters has long been recognized, not much is known ...

So, now let's see the science case for human exploration of Europa, or Ganymede, or for that matter Pluto. Might as well ponder those issues since cost is evidently not a consideration. Click to ...

The state is proposing to bulldoze a short access road in the remote Ka‘u Forest Reserve to improve management of native ecosystems and maintain a hooved- animal-proof fence, according to a draft ...

Lava Butte, a cinder cone rising 509 feet above U.S. Highway 97 between Bend and Sunriver, is an easy-to-reach (or at least the parking lot is) option on a clear day, or any time you want a fix of ...