When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if Earth’s entire topography flipped upside down, imagining mountain ...

Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, a vast salt flat, is celebrated as Earth's flattest natural landscape. Formed from a dried-up ancient lake, its incredibly smooth surface, often resembling a giant mirror ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans! One of Europe's most valuable wetlands is shrinking — and satellite views suggest it could disappear ...

That’s 20 minutes of my life I’ll never get back, as I tried to work through enough facts to debunk his strange belief.