The hidden chemistry of the Earth’s interior may play a far more dramatic role in shaping continents than previously imagined ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

Earth’s surface tells a complex story, shaped not only by visible forces like tectonics and erosion but also by hidden mantle ...

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Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the ...

The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans ...

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

Zealandia, which separated from Australia millions of years ago and was once Earth's eighth continent, is a "geological time capsule," said The Brighter Side, and holds valuable information about ...