Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about 5% of the ancient terrain. Because of this small footprint, it would be ...

Tibet and Nepal lie on a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, and ...

Mount Everest stands as the tallest peak on Earth, but its story began millions of years ago when massive tectonic plates ...

PM local time (0947 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in Taitung county, the geological agency said. It was felt ...

In 2017, researchers aboard the International Ocean Discovery Program vessel carried out six drilling missions in the ...

Earlier, Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration estimated its magnitude at 6.1. According to the National Fire Agency, so far, no damage to the island’s transport networks has been reported.

There was no tsunami threat to the Marianas from the earthquake, and no major damages or injuries were reported.

The Kaohsiung downtown is seen from a mountain in Kaohsiung on December 23, 2025. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng / AFP) TAIPEI, Taiwan ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

Geothermal energy delivers constant power using heat from beneath the Earth. Here’s how it works and why it matters.

Deep down, beneath the icy edges of the Greenland Sea, a remarkable and previously undiscovered geological and biological ...