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Six unusual earthquakes shook Mount Adams in September, but it's too soon to speculate about a potential eruption
The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
The world's tallest peak has inched above its peers, and now researchers think they have an explanation.
Using a unique, circular wave pool, engineers learned that waves can be four time steeper than previously calculated.
A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers say.
Observations by a NASA suborbital rocket confirmed a 60-year-old hypothesis about a driver of the planet's polar wind.
Thursday's 7.1 earthquake has heightened concerns among experts, who warn that it could be a precursor to an even larger rupture along a fault line off the Japanese coast.
Along with winds of up to 70 miles per hour (112 kilometers per hour), the tropical storm brought 25 packages of coke ashore.
Neither hardwood nor softwood, tulip trees grow fast and store a lot of carbon, potentially providing an unexpected resource in the battle against climate change.
Geologists say the underground blast at Yellowstone on July 23 was caused by a buildup of steam and hot water, which propelled rocks hundreds of feet into the air.
July 22 was the hottest day on record, beating out the record set the day before.
A 42-year-old Belgian man learned the hard way why it's called Death Valley.
Videos show a huge plume of steam and debris flying into the air.
The discovery that electric rocks make oxygen challenges the long-held belief that only photosynthetic organisms produce our planet's oxygen.
The feed is part of an effort to educate people about rattlesnake behavior and their importance to the ecosystem.
The recently discovered marine sinkhole, the Taam Ja' blue hole, likely contains caves and tunnels, according to new research.
Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study.
Some of history's most notorious diamonds may have formed hundreds of miles from their findspots.
The magnitude 4.8 quake struck in northern New Jersey and was felt across the tri-state area.
From the serpentine to the cavernous, the planet's underground is filled with spaces to ponder.
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