In the remote wilderness of northeastern Utah, a strange and unsettling phenomenon is quietly unfolding. A massive earth crack, stretching for miles, is slowly tearing through the desert landscape, ...

This raises the question of what cracked the lid and created those plates in the first place. Some researchers think an intrusion might have gotten things moving. In the past two years, several teams ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous ...

The “Menominee Crack” was a little longer than a football field, over half a meter wide in places, and approached 1.7m deep. It ran through a forested area that had previously been flat.

Around 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday night, an interplanetary shock wave slammed into Earth at supersonic speed. The density of the solar wind quadrupled and cracked open Earth’s magnetic field.

A ghost village that has emerged as drought has nearly emptied a dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border is drawing crowds of tourists with its eerie, gray ruins.. With the reservoir at 15% of its ...

Long ago, Earth's outer shell cracked into pieces, which we now call tectonic plates. In a new study, scientists investigated the origins of plate tectonics and found its history rooted in Earth ...

PAHOA, Hawaii — The earth cracked open beneath Leilani Estates in middle-of-the-night darkness, glowing crimson against a black sky. Salvador Luquin awoke on his 50-acre ranch to acrid smoke ...