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

Scientists tracking Earth's wandering magnetic pole have spotted it heading from Canada toward Siberia in recent years. Where ...

The magnetic North Pole is the direction that a compass needle points, and it is not a fixed location; it changes due to ...

The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will ...

NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite aims to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's surface movements with frequent global ...

The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

São Sebastião, a municipality on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil that was partially cut off from the rest of the ...

Scientists have detected unexpected activity in the high Arctic as the magnetic North Pole heads towards Russia in a way that ...

The key to decarbonization may be all around us. Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is in the ocean, in the ...