Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.

Experts continue to probe the Moon's shrinking effect on the stability of future lunar bases.

We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has ...

Without the Moon, researchers say Earth could experience far more extreme climate shifts, unstable seasons and dramatically weaker tides - fundamentally altering life on the planet.

Earth could once again be dominated by a single continental mass in roughly 200 to 250 million years. The planet moves through natural cycles in which continents break apart and later reassemble, and ...

Antarctica’s hidden forces: Spanish scientist reveals to AS what decades of research are uncovering beneath the ice.

Africa is slowly changing in front of our eyes, although we can’t see it directly. Scientists have discovered the continent is splitting in two parts, and ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million years ago far away from the sinking zone. How this ...

It doesn’t have to be that way: Consider Minneapolis. Tens of thousands of ordinary Americans risked freezing temperatures, pepper spray, stun guns and worse to stand up for their neighbors.

It is a healthy, important part of our democratic process to debate and question our own leaders. That doesn't mean there's an internal civil war.