Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the ...

Forget the neat, tidy narratives you might have heard in school about a stable, unchanging Earth. Just like history, our planet’s story is far more complex, dramatic, and utterly mind-bending than ...

Scientists confirm the northern boundaries of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, is submerged across almost two million ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

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, there are ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth’s biomass. However, we still don’t have firm answers to some basic questions ...

Late last year, scientists in New Zealand announced that they had created the most thorough map of any continent on planet Earth. For decades, the geologists had dug up and analyzed countless rock ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden continent on Earth, but it’s not Atlantis. They found it while reconstructing the evolution of Mediterranean region’s complex geology, which rises with mountain ...