If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

The ground beneath your feet feels solid, permanent, and utterly reliable. Every morning, you wake up expecting the same coastlines, the same mountain ranges, and the same continental boundaries that ...

New research presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union highlights the future of our continents – a future which suggests renewed unity, quite literally. Just as our continents ...

The longevity of Earth's continents in the face of destructive tectonic activity is an essential geologic backdrop for the emergence of life on our planet. This stability depends on the underlying ...

You walk outside, stand on the pavement, and assume the ground beneath your feet is a permanent fixture. It isn't. The ...

Earth is the only planet known to possess continents. In a new study published August 23 in the journal Geology, researchers suggest unexpected seeds for the formation of the first continents on our ...