Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

The discovery reveals how fragments of continental crust are stripped from beneath tectonic plates and pushed under the ocean ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Extreme heat forged Earth’s continents billions of years ago, creating the stable foundation that made life possible.

By studying ancient lava flows that fractured over Turkey’s Tuz Gölü Fault, researchers at Curtin University have uncovered ...

Earth’s continental crust may have begun forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, Yale scientists say — and the reason will be obvious to anyone who has ever baked a cake ...

Tulane researchers uncover why some continental plates stay strong while others fracture, reshaping understanding of Earth’s ...

The crusty conundrum carries fundamental implications. The thickness of continental crust — the part of Earth’s crust that forms land masses and continents — plays an important role in everything from ...

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth’s granitic continental ...

Long before the Himalayas formed, the Earth had already shaped mountains that still survive today. Check here to learn about ...