Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now ...

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

A giant crack is tearing through Africa—and it’s not slowing down. Hidden beneath the surface, a dramatic geological shift is ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

Diamonds hitch a ride to Earth's surface inside a rare magma called kimberlite, but only if that magma stays buoyant.

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Arctic, from the whole concept of the North Pole, to the number of penguins who ...

Creating the same crystal through an alternative method could dramatically extend the reach of quantum networks, increasing ...

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