Recent findings have unveiled a startling reality: the Earth’s crust is showing signs of significant instability. From the ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly underwater landmass, spanning about 4.9 million square kilometers, challenges ...

Dozens of earthquakes struck near Japan on Monday following a cluster of seismic activity that rocked the area over the ...

Many people in the English-speaking world would have learned in school that there are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North ...

Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...

The meeting started promptly at 2.15 p.m. when the president led the group with a rousing rendition of Jerusalem. Following ...

The theory of plate tectonics is one of the most fundamental concepts in physical geography and geology, explaining the ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the Earth ...

A team of Earth scientists has discovered that continents are slowly peeling apart from below—sending fragments deep into the ...