A study reveals that Earth alternated between chaotic and calm climates during the Paleozoic era, driven by tectonics and ...

As Africa undergoes a dramatic geological shift that may one day split the continent in two, here’s everything you need to ...

A long-traveling mantle heat surge born near Greenland is still shaping North America from below. Credit: Shutterstock A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift ...

According to the team, the ongoing separation is progressing from the northeast to the south in a motion scientists liken to ...

The Himalayas Are Still Growing Every Year Mount Everest increases in height by about 4 millimeters each year due to tectonic ...

In April 1854 a 31-year-old British naturalist by the name of Alfred Russel Wallace stepped ashore at Singapore harbour to ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising discovery within lunar rocks collected over five decades ago. A tiny sample of the ...

A giant crack is tearing through Africa—and it’s not slowing down. Hidden beneath the surface, a dramatic geological shift is ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

A tiny sample of the Moon locked away for more than 50 years turns out to have been hiding an astronomical secret.

The last time Vermont mapped out the rock underlying the Newport Quadrangle, many scientists still thought Earth’s continents ...