Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

NASA’s SWOT satellite tracked large U.S. river flood waves for the first time, revealing their speed and size.

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.

No, nature itself played god, draining a sea and then, just a few million years later, unleashing a flood so huge, it carved canyons, moved mountains, and remolded Earth forever. Scientists have ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more ...

and the flood dumped mounds of sediment at the bottom of the sea as it rushed into the east. As the water rose in the east to meet the waters of the western Mediterranean, the earth stopped shaking.