A project to map part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has shown that the region may be on the threshold of change.

A volcanic super-eruption in America's Yellowstone National Park two million years ago was actually two smaller eruptions 6,000 years apart, new research has revealed.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved a new mission, which includes scientists from UCL, to explore Jupiter and the habitability of its icy moons.

Joint issued by Imperial College London, Oxford University, University of Leicester and UCL - The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved a new mission to explore Jupiter and its icy moons, to reveal fresh insights into the habitability of the ‘waterworlds' orbiting the giant planets in our solar system and beyond.

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have been collaborating with colleagues at the University of Nevada, Reno to watch the Sierra Nevada mountain range grow in real time.

Stephen Hicks is from Somerset, UK, and is studying a PhD in earthquake seismology and geodynamics at the University's School of Environmental Sciences.  He graduated from the University at undergraduate level in Geology and Geophysics in 2011 and ha

It's official: it was announced today that Oxford University scientists will help to prepare a mission to Jupiter and its icy moons.

Fracking requires a minimum distance of at least 0.6 kilometres from sensitive rock strata - The chances of rogue fractures due to shale gas fracking operations extending beyond 0.6 kilometres from the injection source is a fraction of one percent, according to new research led by Durham University.