This unique location provides scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to study the birth of an ocean in real-time, offering insights into how Earth's continents and oceans have formed ...

Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea. Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...