Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began. A study ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary ...

Earth's earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new ...

Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents to make ...

An artist's conception of the early Earth, showing a surface bombarded by large impacts that result in the extrusion of magma onto the surface. At the same time, distal portions of the planet's ...

The Earth with the upper mantle exposed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock approximately 100 miles beneath the Earth's ...

The crust has survived massive amounts of upheaval and change. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 4-billion-year-old piece of ...