The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

Of course, the study of friction is nothing new; and to explain the 20th-century crisis, and to understand where tribology ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Great Falls on Thursday, briefly rattling residents and raising questions about why earthquakes occur in the region.

Deep beneath Northern California’s rugged coastline, scientists have mapped a tangle of hidden faults that could generate earthquakes as powerful as magnitude 8. The newly identified hotspot sits ...

How Earth got its water may trace back to its original building blocks. Apollo Moon soil shows meteorites added only a small ...

The cycling of water within Earth's interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, ...

Be sure to watch GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when KSAT Meteorologist Sarah Spivey demonstrates and explains the science behind it.

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...