Slow-moving slides are common around the world, and especially in California, where several hundred have been mapped in ...

The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. However, a recent study is ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

VIDEO | As Delhi-NCR was jolted by an early morning earthquake, National Centre for Seismology Director OP Mishra says, "The ...

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Only one feature would make me dump Waze and switch to Google Maps full-time: a setting to let me choose the traffic reports to import from Waze into Google Maps. Let me explain why it's doable ...

Earthquakes are less common on the East Coast because the area does not lie on a boundary of tectonic plates — slabs of Earth's crust that slide past each other and build pressure when they get ...

Google Maps will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in line with Trump's wishes. Newly-inaugurated President Trump ordered the name change as part of a lengthy list of ...

Google Maps has indicated it would follow suit. However, the federal process isn't as simple as crossing out the old name and writing in a new one. It's a complicated switch across the bureaucracy ...