The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

The story of Atlantis, a mythological continent that vanished into the sea after its inhabitants displeased the gods, has ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

We are so much alike: we group of eight sitting at the table with our morning coffee.  We are “the coffee group” and we meet five days a week.

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

The movement of tectonic plates may take millions of years, but in Northern Ethiopia, you can see it happen in real time. In ...

From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

The Earth's crust is composed of approximately 15 to 20 tectonic plates, which float on molten magma beneath the Earth.

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Hidden beneath miles of ocean are fragments of ancient worlds—real lost continents that could’ve rewritten geography as we know ...

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...