From the earliest hints of continental crust to the modern dance of tectonic plates, scientists are piecing together Earth's shifting story. New research reveals continents may have formed far earlier ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

A global seismic study has revealed that ancient tectonic slabs buried 1,800 miles below Earth's surface are still deforming the lowermost mantle near the core-mantle boundary. Using over 16 million ...

An international team led by researchers from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) has identified a key ...

Scientists confirm the northern boundaries of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, is submerged across almost two million ...

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have gotten their clearest look yet at the surface of an exoplanet - a planet beyond our solar ...

USGS scientists from the Hawaiian, Cascades and Alaska Volcano Observatories discussed their experiences and best practices ...

This past March, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists — two of whom travelled from Hawaii — visited El Salvador in ...

Desert planets have long been darlings of science fiction writers, from Frank Herbert and Arrakis to George Lucas and ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide whether a place ...