The Earth performed the ultimate magic trick last week, making an island appear out of nowhere.
One of the worst wildfires in California's history continues to burn in Yosemite National Park, where employees will be furloughed following the government failure to pass a budget.
A new island that popped up off the coast of Pakistan following a deadly, 7.7-magnitude quake on Tuesday has been belching poisonous gas and killing fish.
A new island appeared off Pakistan after a deadly 7.7-magnitude quake struck Tuesday afternoon in Baluchistan province's Awaran district -- a dirt-poor expanse of land that is roughly the size of...
The explosive collisions of icy comets with planets and moons generated the vital building blocks of life, spreading these necessary ingredients throughout the solar system, researchers say.
The world's largest volcano lurks beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have announced.
Man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey, a new study says.
Long ago, when the Earth had only one continent and one ocean, an earthquake rippled through western North America's great sand sea.
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