Our understanding of Earth's continents might need an update based ... As scientists continue to investigate, the very map of ...

An incredible effort has been made to map the mystery missing continent of Zealandia which was only recently discovered ...

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into ... If the six-continent model gains traction, educational materials, maps, and even global politics could be affected.

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. The research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth’s first ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea. Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, Earth's molten crust solidified unseen, leaving geologists to piece together how lighter continents separated from the dense mantle below—a slow, hidden process now ...