The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean ...

The breakup of Earth’s supercontinent split seas and lands apart, creating new ecosystems. These shifts opened the door to the Jurassic ...

China has been turning heads with its impressive artificial islands, which have already become large enough to inhabit. Here's how they're made.

Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Far beneath the creaking surface of West Antarctica, scientists have uncovered a 60‑mile‑wide block of granite that rivals ...

His Greenland explorations won admirers like John Franklin and William Scoresby. But Karl Ludwig Giesecke is best known for ...

As they fly around the moon, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II will see views never seen by the human eye. Here's how.

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...