Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

In a nutshell A massive hot rock plume from Earth’s mantle helped create a land bridge between Africa and Asia 20 million ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep ... The slab's pull has created giant "drips" that hang from the underside of the continent down to about 400 miles (640 kilometers) deep inside ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...