Mount Everest already stands as the highest point on Earth, but it is not finished rising. The peak that towers over the border between Nepal and Tibet continues to inch upward by a few millimeters ...

Cajon Pass is more than a busy mountain gateway. Its complex geology could help reshape the next major earthquake’s reach and intensity.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unassuming, brownish stone may be one of the most precious objects on Earth. The rare rock, called Teghaza 001, is a piece of ...

Iowa was at the forefront of the NIL era when its collective, The Swarm, got out in front of things and served as an avenue to financially support the athletics department. The collective is set to ...

The 2010 Haiti earthquake is estimated to have killed more than 300,000 at a cost equivalent to 120 percent of the prior year's GDP. Colombia began designing earthquake-resistant construction in the ...

As Colombia reels from one of the strongest earthquakes in its recorded history that killed at least 250, just weeks after ...

Latin America sits across some of the world's most active tectonic boundaries. Here's why earthquakes are frequent and when they become deadly disasters.

Ancient marine fossils found in Mount Everest’s summit rocks are fueling debate online, but geologists say they reveal the mountain’s seafloor origins.

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia. The tremor occurred at 7:34 local time, at a depth of 96 kilometers, with its epicenter in San José del Palmar, in the Colombian state of Chocó.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently been traveling up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande”, and has come across some ...

Digital rendering of the Atahensik corona on Venus and the Dali Chasma rift system—based on radar data from the Magellan ...