New study reveals that the Earth's mantle was not as hot when Pangaea began to break apart millions of years ago.

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

Earth’s magnetic poles have flipped many times since the planet was formed, so that half the time what we think of as the magnetic north pole was actually south, and vice versa. These flips are not ...

Scientists have discovered deep-sea and underground microbial ecosystems thriving without sunlight, powered by hydrogen gas produced through geological processes like radiolysis and serpentinization.