Even the criteria used to define a continent is fraught, with some geologists arguing for the existence of “Zealandia” and ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Extreme temperatures in future may potentially lead to the first mass extinction on Earth since the dinosaurs, a new study ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon.

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

Planet Earth's sixth ocean has been spotted slowly emerging in what is a geological phenomenon. While experts have been ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

Scientists predict Africa’s gradual split will eventually form a new ocean, creating separate landmasses. This tectonic shift ...