Scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet that the continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that happened during the first billion years of Earth’s ...

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...

A new controversial study suggests Earth has six, not seven, continents due to plates not breaking apart as previously believed. Iceland and the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge are connected to Canada ...

A comet explosion may explain mass extinctions 13,000 years ago, linking the Clovis people's vanishing and mammoth die-off to ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Deep Earth diamonds may secretly rule the fate of continents. Their shimmering cores hold evidence of carbon’s hidden chemistry—hardening some landmasses while sabotaging others from below. A chemical ...

The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two decades' worth of satellite data has revealed. Measurements from NASA's twin GRACE satellites and GRACE follow-on missions have shown that ...

Scientists have discovered ancient diamonds which have provided new clues about the Earth’s evolution. Researchers discovered ancient superdeep diamonds, which hail from mines in Brazil and Western ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. The idea of plate tectonics – which describes how Earth's crust is ...

New research reveals Earth’s inner core could only have formed if carbon was mixed in, reshaping our understanding of the planet’s heart.