A bright fireball meteor streaked across the Southeast US, startling residents across four states with a sudden flash and ...

The journal Science has published a paper by Jen Pierce, a professor in the Department of Geosciences, and 19 co-authors from ...

A startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons that float in the stratosphere has raised $15 million from Japan’s ...

US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced policy changes it said would speed up the search and development of offshore critical minerals. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ...

The U.S. Geological Survey notes that groundwater is the source of drinking water for about half of the total U.S. population ...

Mountain storms can change quickly. Here’s a breakdown of the weather event that caused tragedy over the weekend.

Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...

Hope is on the horizon for test wells to assess what neighbors in two communities have insisted is interfering with the ...

The final image captured by the recently decommissioned Landsat 7 satellite shows how "Sin City" has nearly doubled in size ...

A Q&A with Andrew Shapero, Nantucket's new forever-chemical expert, on the extent of the problem on the island, and how ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the Dominican Republic coast on Monday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Local scientists warn that the proposed federal cuts to the United States Geological Survey’s Ecosystem Mission Area — a ...