Solar heat may influence earthquakes and their timings by altering rock brittleness and underground water movement.

Computer models that factor in the Sun's impact on Earth's surface temperatures are providing more accurate simulations of past earthquakes.

For decades, seismologists have worked to understand and predict earthquakes, but forecasting remains elusive. Now, ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

Using mathematical and computational methods, the researchers analyzed earthquake data alongside solar activity records and surface temperatures on Earth. Among other findings, they observed that ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

This puts Earth in a so-called "Goldilocks zone," where the temperature is just right for liquid water to exist on the surface. Our planet's atmosphere is mostly made of nitrogen. The next biggest ...

Incorporating solar activity predictions into detailed Earth temperature models may improve seismic forecasts and save lives.

Large areas of Earth’s surface could soon be so hot that people will die within hours in the open air, several recent studies ...

To learn more, The Allegheny Front’s Kara Holsopple spoke with Jeff Masters, Ph.D., a meteorologist who wrote about it for ...