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

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, this may be the first time ...

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

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

Give pupils an outline map of the continent and ask them ... with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to North America when they catch it. Older children could identify ...

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the ...

The solar flare, which peaked at 4:25 a.m. ET, hurled streams of plasma and charged particles into the cosmos.

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of ...

A long period of drought in North America has been recognized by scientists for decades. A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's orbit.

Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as the first pontiff from Latin America ... Though geography divides it into two continents, North and South, it is one land ...