In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Scientists have solved one of Earth’s mysteries of how continents rose more than 1km and created some of the world’s most dramatic landscapes ... Africa — are formed when continents rift ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Earth is home to some truly mind-boggling landscapes, from salt-covered deserts ... is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

The crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. It is the familiar landscape on which we live ... colliding to build mountains or rifting apart to form new seafloor. Continents are composed ...

Vegetation has been a key part of the Earth's surface for only about 450 million years. With the progression of the terrestrial landscape from bare surfaces to widespread coverage by plants ...

They are thought to have been created by ancient people living in these regions by digging out and clumping together earth forming a large circle ... strands of the culture’s knowledge about the ...