Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

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

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

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

"I'll tell you," said astronaut Harrison Schmitt as the Apollo 17 hurtled towards the Moon, "if there ever was a fragile-appearing piece of blue in space, it's the Earth right now". It was ...

above North America, the satellite captured thousands of photos that were later digitally stitched together into the time-lapse video above. Related: See all the best images of Earth from space ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

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