Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...

Can a continent disappear? Many cultures have stories of vanishing islands or cities swept away by tidal waves. But is there truth to any of these legends? Our continents have undergone tumultuous ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface lie fragments of ancient continents—landmasses that once rose above the waves, now buried in silence. Their stories rewrite Earth’s map.

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Venus is the world next door. An Earth-sized planet that couldn’t be less ...

For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work. Weekends often find them far from New Haven, ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time provides ...