When Mississippi State University alumnus Steve “Duke” Pigott took his final steps onto the summit of Mount Everest this past ...

Beryllium-7 is a radioactive isotope of beryllium produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. A Japanese research team has ...

Smithsonian Journeys has announced 35 new small-ship cruise departures for 2027 in collaboration with Ponant Explorations.

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

The FIFA World Cup 2026 in the United States, Mexico and Canada is taking shape. After Monday's matches, 34 of the 48 ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Of the 2026 World Cup's 48 spots, 30 already have been claimed. A few more can be secured as qualifiers take place in November.

On October 13, Evgeny Staroselsky stood atop the razor-edged limestone summit of Carstensz Pyramid in Papua, completing the ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

There is a language for ice. Tabulas are broad, flat-topped icebergs, and growlers are smaller bergs under three feet tall.