Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping ... But as a result of being the most ancient pieces of Earth’s lithosphere (containing the crust and uppermost mantle ...

Earth’s continents have regions of very old ... “Luckily, we also got the new idea about what drives this thinning.” More of North America’s Craton lies in Canada than the USA, but the ...

This map shows seismic speed in the Earth's crust at 200 kilometers depth across the continental United States and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in ...

And yet Connecticut—along with much of the rest of eastern North America—holds important clues about Earth’s history. This region, which geologists call the eastern North American margin ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth ... the International Space Station (ISS) was orbiting above South America ...

Netizens have reacted to footage of stranded ISS astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore thanking SpaceX boss Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump. Their return to Earth from the ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes) has a ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...