An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet ...

Migrator ypredators may link the evolution of distant species, carrying learned fear toward prey that never actually meet.

The formation and stabilization of Earth’s early continental crust marked a crucial step in planetary evolution, enabling long-term climate regulation and driving major shifts in global geochemical ...

Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents to make life possible. A study in Terra Nova argues that the planet's earliest ...

Computational simulations of Venus’s geodynamics show the formation of large tessera plateaus. Matching of the models with spacecraft orbiter data constrains the mechanism that may have formed the ...

Explore the fascinating story of Earth's lost continents and the evolution of humanity in this captivating video.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. An international team of researchers investigated how Earth’s ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and Michigan Tech geologist Chad Deering advances the understanding of the role that continents have played in the chemical ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS), along with international collaborators, reveals that ...

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth's core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...