Supercomputer simulation shows that climate extremes ... The authors wrote that, within 250 million years, all the continents ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Simulation proves that the Earth's continents would eventually merge and create one vast landmass, Pangaea Ultima. Tectonic plates, after hundreds of millions of years, would collide and compress ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early ... beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began. A simulation on the origin and ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories ...

This new simulation acts like a global weather forecast for all species on Earth, calculating how many species of animal live ...

The findings could help researchers piece together the enormous puzzle of how Earth came to look the way it does today. "It helps us understand how do you make continents, how do you break them ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...

The Earth's continents are far from constant. Plate tectonics have caused the landmasses to shift over time, and another shift is occurring in the 21st century. Scientists have known for the past ...

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...