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

Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever, however. A ...

Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

Though Neotethys closed up more than 20 million years ago, the oceanic crust that used to underpin it is still affecting the Zagros mountain region, the new study found. "This plate is pulling the ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...