New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The effort, released this year for Earth Day, is a three-year collaboration between USA TODAY and market research firm ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons ... The findings have been reported in Nature Geoscience. "We made the observation that there could be something beneath the craton," said ...