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 ...

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

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

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

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

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

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 ...

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

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

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 ...