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 ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The formation of the Earth’s continents occurred during a fiery ... the University of British Columbia tipped the scales in the direction of the latter. Three types of granitoid rocks are ...

Shared on social media on Thursday, the image (top) shows Earth as a blaze of streaking light, an effect created by using ...

The boundary between the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface ... thick beneath the continents. Currents within the mantle have broken the crust into blocks ...

Now, scientists at Columbia University say sudden freezing temperatures may be to blame. The causes of the End Triassic ...

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 ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth ... first continents. Iron particles effectively act as tiny magnets that can record both magnetic field strength and direction ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...

Asia is massive and covers around 30% of the Earth’s land area. No other continent has such varied ... Lut desert and are usually aligned in the direction of the wind. They are so large and ...

201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth's five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living species ...