ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

The result of the increase, the simulation predicted, could be that the frequency of atmospheric rivers over Antarctica ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

How did the continents appear on Earth? This question, crucial for understanding the emergence of civilizations and life itself, remains one of the great mysteries of the early stages of planetary ...

Over 300 million years ago, all the continents we know today were joined together in a massive supercontinent called Pangaea.

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

(Photos: Getty images)Thus, metals like gold and platinum arrived on Earth while our planet was still forming. Korenaga explains, ‘About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was hit by a Mars-sized rock ...

astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016 announced research that provided evidence for a planet about 1.5 times the size of Earth in the outer solar system. However ...

Magnetic data played a role in confirming the hidden shape of Zealandia, as the analysis of changes in the Earth's magnetic field recorded in Zealandia's crust helped mark the continent's boundaries.