Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

The groundbreaking discovery was detailed in a study published last year in the journal Gondwana Research by researchers from the University of Derby in England and Sweden's Uppsala University. Read ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

This layer also contains Earth's oceanic crust — a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above this layer. But how these sublayers manage to exist in ...