Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Scientists say Africa is gradually breaking apart along the East African Rift. The process is slow, but it could one day ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

Stare out into the grand expense of the ocean, and it can truly seem endless. Although oceans appear vast and uniform, ...

In recent decades, mangroves along the Atlantic coast of North America have expanded into areas traditionally dominated by ...

A granite wall under the Atlantic Ocean in France reveals the existence of a community that predates the arrival of ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

Alyssa Rola is a freelance journalist based in Chicago, originally from the Philippines. She has over six years of experience in Manila’s media industry, covering a range of beats including lifestyle ...

Science has always been more closely linked to men, something that has been changing little by little thanks to great female ...