In recent years, a large group of geologists has gathered enough evidence to support the recognition of an eighth. It’s ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...

But this isn’t a worldwide consensus. The number of continents, it seems, depends on who you ask. The answer may have seemed clear in elementary school, but in truth, there is no single, definitive ...

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, ...

The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...

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 ...

Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why. If you were to arrive in our solar system never ...

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