Contrary to expectations, ensconced within the young mountain range lie bits of a 1.8 billion-year-old supercontinent. G.S.

Over the last few decades substantial progress has been made in understanding the structure of tectonically active rifts, failed rifts, and ancient passive ...

Planetary scientists have produced the first global map of small mare ridges on the Moon, adding new evidence that the lunar surface has been reshaped in geologically recent times by tectonic forces ...

The team, led by materials scientist Adel Djellouli at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, set out with a simple question: why do basketball shoes make that distinctive noise?

Africa is slowly changing in front of our eyes, although we can’t see it directly. Scientists have discovered the continent is splitting in two parts, and ...

Open an atlas and look closely at the world map. Notice how the eastern coast of South America seems to match the western edge of Africa. It almost lo.

We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has ...

An astonishing discovery has been made atop the world’s highest peak. Fossils of marine life have been uncovered at over ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...