October 21, 2015 GPS helped forecast earthquake Scientists were watching closely as a subduction zone along Costa Rica built to its breaking point in 2012
October 21, 2015 Maine volcanoes (yes, Maine) among world's biggest Maine has supervolcanoes, and their eruptions could have been among the biggest ever on Earth, scientists say.
October 21, 2015 Life on Earth may have come from a comet, scientists say 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.
October 21, 2015 Volcano under Yellowstone bigger than previously thought Yellowstone's underground volcanic plumbing is bigger and better connected than scientists thought, researchers said Wednesday.
October 20, 2015 New Zealand's earthquake deep drilling project underway A deep-drilling project into one of the world's most dangerous earthquake faults is now underway on New Zealand's South Island.
October 20, 2015 Mind the Gap: New evidence for Alaskan tsunamis found This century's deadly tsunamis kicked off an intense search for buried clues to prehistoric killer waves along Alaska's southern shores.
October 20, 2015 Dino-killing asteroid impact dwarfed by earlier space rock crash Scientists have reconstructed a long-ago asteroid impact that makes the strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago look like a playful chuck on the chin.
October 20, 2015 Active volcanoes store cold magma Strike that iconic image of a tall, snow-capped volcano sitting atop a liquid pool of hot, molten magma.
October 20, 2015 Largest volcano on Earth found under Pacific Ocean The world's largest volcano lurks beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have announced.
October 20, 2015 SHIELD Act to protect from solar catastrophes, electromagnetic pulses A bill introduced Tuesday would protect against what some call the greatest threat facing America today: a tremendous electromagnetic pulse that could destroy the electric grid, essentially sending the country back to the stone age.