Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

For millions of years, the Earth has oscillated between ice ages and warmer episodes. The movements of the ground beneath our ...

Geology, characterized as the study of the Earth, its layers, and its minerals, has shaped the Imperial Valley for millions ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

Minor earthquakes happen in and around New York more often than many people realize. This map shows where they’ve struck over the past decades — and how close some may have been to you.

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African ...

The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.