The story of Atlantis, a mythological continent that vanished into the sea after its inhabitants displeased the gods, has ...

Seen from space, our planet has often been called a "blue marble." It's not, however, just the swirly white clouds that give Earth its marbled appearance. The continents: They are what complete the ...

The Earth may eventually have a new ocean. Tectonic plate movement under a section of Northern Africa could pull the area that is currently Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea away from the rest of the ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Africa. This is happening along the East African Rift, a long stretch of land where the Earth’s surface is slowly pulling ...

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Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could ...

Most people can point to the seven continents on a map, but the actual reality of these massive landmasses is […] ...