Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

2024 in the journal Solid Earth. The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia ...

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If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...

It is so easy to forget that geological processes of Earth are ongoing, always working at the same time, and surprising us. Recent scientific discoveries are revealing two extraordinary phenomena that ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

Major missions for 2025 include crewed Shenzhou-20 and -21 missions and Tianzhou cargo spacecraft to the Tiangong space station and the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return mission.

The US has a long-standing interest in Greenland, with Trump's recent push driven by national security concerns and Greenland's vast rare earth deposits. China currently controls most of the ...

NASA on alert for first time: Bernabeu-sized meteorite could collide with Earth in 2032 These are figures that could continue to vary until next April, when more will be known about the asteroid ...