The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

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 ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

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 ...

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, ...

(CNN) -- Found -- one lost continent, hiding underneath a tropical holiday destination. It might sound implausible, but deep at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a research team, led by South Africa's ...

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...