Dashcam footage recorded from a highway in Anderson, South Carolina, showed a bright object with a tail streaking through the ...

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

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

D has been used as a pesticide since the 1940s, and gained notoriety as a component of Agent Orange, used by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War.

A moderately strong, 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Iran on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

The Peru earthquake was reported four days after a 4.7-magnitude earthquake was reported in Alaska on Wednesday (June 11), ...

Scientists believe Michigan may be an abundant source of what could become the next big thing in carbon-free energy.

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

A magnitude 2.3 earthquake happened Thursday afternoon about 1.24 miles south--southeast of Madison in Lake County.

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

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey.