Where tourists map end and the the fences begin, lie places that aren't marketed, photographed, or casually stumbled into, ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed an infant star 20 times larger than the sun setting interstellar ...

Let’s face it: who hasn’t fantasized at least once about spotting a black hole outside their window instead of the neighbor’s ...

Earth’s average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are ...

Sentinel-2 satellite captured a devastating scene of the bushfires in Australia, seeing dark burn scars where the fire had ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active since 1994, spewing plumes of smoke, gas and ash more or less daily. The ...

A major fault in central Turkey is defying decades of scientific belief, tearing the Earth open in a way no one expected.

This year, the Earth’s core put on a show unlike any other, with volcanic eruptions that dazzled observers from every continent. Located in Hawaii, this volcano produced some of the year's most ...