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

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth ...

Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...

Plate tectonics may have played a larger role in the evolution of life on Earth than we previously thought. | Credit: Nicholas Forder Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

Millions of years ago, a fiery plume rising from Earth’s mantle reshaped continents, closing ancient seas and lifting land that would forever change life on our planet. This upheaval forged a bridge ...

The Earth may eventually have a new ocean. Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea away from the rest of the ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS), along with international collaborators, reveals that ...

In some parts of Earth's interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they are ...