Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

Over 300 million years ago, all the continents we know today were joined together in a massive supercontinent called Pangaea.

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

A terrestrial planet simply refers to a planet ... One such place is the Hudson Bay of Canada. 9. Earth's continents were once known as Rodinia. We know—you've heard of Pangea; not Rodinia.

Contributing Editor Korey Haynes has produced a stellar story, How we study our planet, exploring the way we use Earth-orbiting ... his analysis of the continent far away from many people ...

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 ...

Earth's Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost “Central ... was first calculated to bestow on the object its new dwarf planet status. But, so far, Phethean and his team’s work provides ...

The early Earth was entirely molten, and its surface began to solidify only as the planet cooled. This solid surface then eventually formed continents, but they were very different ones compared ...