For billions of years, Earth’s continents have stood firm, forming the foundation for mountains, rivers, and life itself. But ...

For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

Earth’s interior remains one of the most enigmatic realms of science, with its deepest regions yet to fully reveal their ...

Scientists uncover remnants of proto-Earth buried beneath continents, providing rare isotopic evidence that rewrites how our ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the seafloor.

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...