Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...