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

History teachers love making everything sound clean and simple. "This happened, then that happened, everyone learned a lesson ...

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

Do you know which continent is permanently covered with snow? Explore why Antarctica holds this distinction, along with its location, climate, ice coverage, importance and interesting facts in this ...

Australia stands unique as the world's only country that is also an entire continent. This 'land Down Under' experiences ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

The Earth's crust is composed of approximately 15 to 20 tectonic plates, which float on molten magma beneath the Earth.

Scientists at the University of Southampton found evidence that waves of hot, melted rock are rising up from deep below ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

Deep within caves, high up in the mountains and trekking at the two polar extremes of the earth – Will Smith adventured to ...