For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the ... Others maintain they formed by plate tectonic processes similar to ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more ...

The 3.5 billion-year-old crater discovered in Australia may be the cradle of life. Earth's oldest-known crater discovered is ...

Cindy Jenson-Elliott releases her 18th children’s nonfiction book, ‘The Doomsday Detectives,’ about the dinosaurs’ extinction ...

For about 80 million years after breaking from the ancient supercontinent Pangaea, the Indian tectonic plate ... Decisive evidence favoring one theory over the other has yet to emerge, in part ...

And while associating earthquakes with solar or lunar activity might sound like a conspiracy theory, recent research ... can alter the pressure on tectonic plate boundaries. While these factors ...