This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

About 250 million years ago, you could pretty easily walk from what is now Australia to North America – with a pit stop in Antarctica. This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, “Oceans Are the Real Continents.” With black and white cinematography that ...

In contrast, the crust of continents lies under shallow oceans and land. It is highly variable in composition and age. Some can be nearly as old as the solar system itself, about 4.6 billion years.