The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful tsunami and led to the deaths of as many as 600 people. But a new analysis of ...

The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their trajectories, according to new research.

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...