SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is becoming a factory for international ice-climbing champions. Utah's The Scratch Pad gym trains ...

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Two bald eagles sat close together on a branch above Boulder Creek along the White Rocks segment of East Boulder Trail.

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

NBC News and NBC Sports chief data analyst Steve Kornacki chats with USA TODAY about his upcoming assignments and those oft-covered khaki pants.

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers is using an innovative X-ray imaging approach to reveal how compression reshapes the tiny spaces and stresses within sandstone—findings that could predict how this ...

🪶⛰️ Watch the majestic Common Raven tend its nest on steep, rocky cliffs. Known for intelligence and mystery, this powerful bird builds its family in the wildest places. Patrick Kielty's heartfelt ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...