Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...

Between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, Earth's continents assembled and broke apart twice, first forming Nuna, then Rodinia. Using a new plate tectonic model covering 1.8 billion years of Earth's ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have stood firm, forming the foundation for mountains, rivers, and life itself. But what gave these massive slabs of rock their remarkable stability has long ...

New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS), along with international collaborators, reveals that ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...