The Painted Desert, located within the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, is a tapestry of vibrant colors and ...

It’s as if the Earth decided to flex its geological ... The Historic Mountain Town in Arizona that’s Perfect for an Autumn Day Trip It’s what Thor would drink if he decided to ditch the hammer and ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

As you might have guessed, given that Hough is a seismologist for the USGS, the study she and her team recently published in ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

According to History.com, this brutal and often fatal phenomenon was inspired by superstition, religion and the hunt for scapegoats during political and social clashes during challenging times in ...

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” UO’s Leif Karlstrom, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “That ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

The Palisades fire has burned almost 24,000 acres through the Pacific Palisades and into the Santa Monica Mountains. The burn area covers several popular hiking spots, including Temescal Canyon ...

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