The hidden chemistry of the Earth’s interior may play a far more dramatic role in shaping continents than previously imagined. According to a groundbreaking studypublished in Science Advances, ...

"By dating these rocks and studying the magnetic anomalies they presented," the researchers said, "we were able to map the major geological units across North Zealandia." (CREDIT: Tectonic) Beneath ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far beneath your feet, two giant “blobs” of dense rock hover above Earth’s core. (CREDIT: Edward Garnero/Mingming Li/Arizona State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. earth from above with a cutaway view displaying a heated interior Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic ...

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 ...

A team of scientists have found a massive "gravity hole" in the historically mysterious and frozen continent of Antarctica.

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice. Despite the barren landscape, the evolution of complex life in the oceans was about to ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two million square miles. Though mostly underwater, this geological giant has ...