Many works on view encourage visitors to attend to the uncertain relationships they might have with unknown other bodies.

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

The Rialto Fire Department reported that a series of small earthquakes shook the northwestern portion of the city Thursday ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

The company is building an exploration well this year and plans to begin drilling production wells (those that can eventually ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

Sinkites reveal inverted subsurface structures and may affect carbon storage strategies. Their formation remains under active investigation. Scientists have identified hundreds of massive sand formati ...

Since Edward Burtynsky’s birth in Ontario, Canada, in 1955, the Earth’s population has roughly tripled, and its economy has grown tenfold. This “great acceleration,” to use the title of the ...

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the ...

The moment seismologists got word that a magnitude 8.8 earthquake had struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, they felt an ...

The tsunami waves travel across the deep ocean at up to 440 miles per hour, so they may be expected to reach any Pacific ...