Austin feels laid-back. The small down-town area has bars and restaurants with live music of varying quality. One person does morning percussion on the sidewalk. There are quite a few self-driving ...

You probably don't think of active volcanoes as the ideal place to build a nursery, but for some animals, they're the perfect ...

Steve Ruff is an associate research professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

Scientists in the United States are preparing to drill into one of the country’s most closely watched volcanoes in a bid to ...

A study reveals that Earth alternated between chaotic and calm climates during the Paleozoic era, driven by tectonics and ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is selected for places that possess outstanding universal value for humanity in terms or ...

Heavy rainfall has unleashed widespread flooding and landslides across Asia, killing more than 600 people with hundreds still missing. Cyclone-fueled downpours battered parts of Indonesia, Thailand an ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

Before Sunday, the volcano's last known eruption roughly coincided with the beginning of our current Holocene Epoch, when the ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

Kilauea volcano erupts again, sending towering lava fountains soaring 400 feet, this time for the 37th time since last year.