NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its ...

For this next story, we go to the South Pole, where scientists have placed two seismometers 8,000 feet below the ice cap. These super-sensitive instruments will be used to measure earthquakes and ...

Hurricane Melissa will go down as one of the worst hurricanes ever in the Atlantic Ocean, with the hurricane reaching a strength that only a handful of storms have achieved in recorded history.

When conventional seismometers in Haiti failed before the 2010 quake, cheaper, less sophisticated devices helped seismic researchers fill in the blanks. By Kenneth Chang When a magnitude-7.0 ...