Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant valleys and rugged, rocky plains that were once the ocean floor, connecting ...

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 throughout ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

The puzzle pieces left behind by Pangaea, from fossils to the matching shorelines along the Atlantic Ocean, provided the first hints that the Earth's continents move.

A study published in the journal One Earth explores how marine biodiversity conservation, human health and well-being are ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

The historic ocean liner SS United States, whose fate had been in limbo for years, will begin its transition into the world's largest sunken artificial reef beginning this week in Philadelphia, its ...

Nobel laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah captivated Princeton audiences in an Oct. 30 visit with reflections on ...

The rules vary from place to place, but the idea is to allow nature to flourish by limiting human activity as much as ...