Despite being almost entirely underwater, Zealandia meets all the geological criteria to be classified as a continent.

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Thanks to a blend of heavy cream and crème fraîche, the filling has a custard-like texture that holds everything together in the potato crust shell. Baby spinach and jarred artichoke hearts add ...

Beneath America, something ancient and invisible is at work. Deep under the heart of the Midwest, a long-buried slab of Earth ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Dubbed the "Farallon slab" and first imaged in the 1990s, this piece of oceanic crust is responsible for a process ... which ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

Researchers have identified a section of ancient oceanic crust beneath the Midwest that is pulling present-day North American crust into the mantle.