The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic ...

With Spurr rumbling near Anchorage, let's look at some of the largest eruptions in the most volcanically active state of the ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

Millions of years ago, a band of intrepid iguanas boarded a floating vessel, and reached the remote Pacific island chain.

Each spring and fall academic departments and programs, as well as student groups, sponsor a wide range of trips and ...

The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as ...

HIGHLIGHTS •Aircore drilling to test priority targets expected to commence in late-March, weather dependent, at the Balla ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Researchers found Earth's orbital changes align with past volcanic eruptions. Climate shifts and massive eruptions occurred ...