The continent is also a country - but there are often misconceptions about the region it's a part of and how it's defined.

Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies Zealandia, a submerged landmass spanning nearly two million square miles. Often ...

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

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

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

One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

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

A new study predicts a grim future for humanity as Earth's continents drift towards forming a supercontinent. This will lead ...

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

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

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

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 ...