The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Mountains rise, volcanoes spew, and Earth itself quakes as the crust constantly remakes itself in the ceaseless cycle of ...

In towns along the northern border, residents lament this new strain imposed on their long cross-border friendship.

its central band cleaved by a dusky void — the Great Rift. This motif isn’t unique to Egypt, either. Cultures as distant as the Navajo and Zuni in North America used curving forms to depict the Milky ...

Long before the Great Lakes, a rift nearly tore North America in half—leaving behind Lake Superior’s depth, copper-rich ridges, and stories still told today.

Why it's incredible: The rift nearly broke North America in half around 1 billion years ago. North America's "broken heart" is an ancient rift valley in the Midwestern United States. The rifting ...

North America dropped four rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on April 25. Although the U.S. added a total of two rigs week ...

Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we ...

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study led by ...