On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

Multiple major US cities could be mostly underwater in just 75 years, a startling new study predicts. The researchers ...

A subset of these planetesimals then accreted to form the Earth, which, over several hundred million years, formed a crust consisting of mobile tectonic plates that hosted the first biosphere. Dr. Fu ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some Texans have dirty minds when it comes to custom license plates. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles compiled a list of rejected custom license plate submissions from 2024, with ...

A couple who have proudly displayed their love for their favourite football team through a personalised number plate for nearly three decades have been left stunned after the DVLA withdrew it due ...

Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire", Japan is one of the world’s most tectonically active countries. The archipelago, home to around 125 ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

This flow is what drives the movement of tectonic plates on Earth’s surface, causing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the shifting of continents. Heat from the Earth’s core causes convection ...

A couple who have had a personalised number plate showing off their love for their favourite football team for almost 30 years have had it withdrawn by the DVLA because it could be 'offensive'.