The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Scientists have uncovered what was once thought impossible - hidden continents buried deep beneath the oceans. From Zealandia near New Zealand to a newly mapped landmass close to Canada, these ...

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Earth’s continents became long-lasting when parts of the deep crust briefly heated above about 900°C (roughly 1,650°F). A new study argues that this intense heat allowed the crust to shed its internal ...

A new study of the chemical components of rocks led by researchers at Penn State and Columbia University provides the clearest evidence yet for how Earth's continents became and remained so stable — ...