As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Consider the dramatic geographical and potential climatic changes if the entire continent of South America suddenly vanished.

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process providing new information about how continents and landmasses evolve.