Azores earthquake of M5.2 struck the central North Atlantic on October 20, 2026, at 18:07 UTC, with five agencies confirming ...

Six continents, not seven? Discover why scientists classify Earth's landmasses differently. Explore Eurasia, plate tectonics, ...

Last month, a startup called Endurance Energy sailed 300 miles off the coast of Oregon to test something new: deploying ...

It’s been over 200 million years since South America broke off Africa into its own continent. But now it’s behaving very ...

What if everything you learned about Earth’s seven continents was not quite right? Scientists are challenging the familiar ...

A new cryptic butterfly species, Polyommatus lurae, has been discovered in Albania using mitochondrial DNA, chromosome ...

The crust, giant geodes, and diamond layers—revisiting the Earth's interior that the Virgil travels through using real Earth ...

Where Did the Increased Seafloor Width Go? A Hypothesis Connecting the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Vanished Tethys ...

Scientists aboard IODP Expedition 399 developed and validated a rigorous workflow for retrieving contamination-free hard rock ...

Scientists hunting invisible “ghost particles” more than a mile underground have found surprising clues that could torch everything experts thought they knew about the depths of our ...

A new study suggests that a giant section of lower crust beneath Italy is slowly peeling away and sinking into the mantle. Scientists say this “unzipping” could explain much of the earthquake activity ...

Mantle tomography reveals the existence of two large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) at the base of the mantle. We examine here the hypothesis that they are piles of oceanic crust that have ...