Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy. The ...

The idea that Earth has seven continents may need a serious update. In recent years, a large group of geologists has gathered enough evidence to support the recognition of an eighth. It’s called ...

Once the world reopened, the Lippe-McGraws were back in motion. There was Nevis, a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea, at age 3 ...

Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of ...

The first half-billion years of Earth science were gnarly. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Earth was just a wee young thing, ...

New research examining over 20 years of data captured by NASA’s twin climate satellites, GRACE and GRACE-FO, has revealed an “unprecedented” level of water loss among the planet’s continents, creating ...

Earth's continents are losing 4 Olympic swimming pools' worth of fresh water every second, with dire consequences for jobs, ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa into ...

THERE are various continents that stretch between different regions of the Earth. While continents were formed similarly, various elements differentiate these ...

Nick's work has received grants from the Australian government and Australian Research Council From the 1950s until recently, we thought we had a clear idea of how continents form. Most people will ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...