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

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

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

Scientists have uncovered a hidden biosphere buried miles beneath Earth’s surface, where life survives without sunlight, fresh air, or anything resembling a normal ecosystem. Some microbes live in ...

Satellite data has unveiled a captivating geological phenomenon demonstrating that Earth’s crust is "dripping" under the ...

EADaily, April 29th, 2026. The African continent is splitting apart much faster than thought. This is reported by the Polish ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Paul Bedrosian of the U.S. Geological Survey about a new map and model of the deep continental ...

About 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, and 96.5% of that water is found in the oceans.

They’ve built a new online tool, Paleolatitude.org 3.0, that lets anyone click a place on Earth and see what latitude it ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...