While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

However, what they found initially didn’t make any sense. The model displayed remnants of submerged plates located under oceans and in the middle of continents, which—according to our current ...

Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...

The continents of America and Europe are slowly becoming further apart as the Atlantic Ocean gets wider due to forces deep ...

Scientists uncover 'metal highways' beneath continents, where molten carbonates transport critical metals like cobalt and ...