Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth’s crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding ...

Scientists say this “giant hot blob” is part of a deep mantle structure that has already helped tear continents apart once, ...

In January 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed an idea the scientific world thought was wack. After scrutinizing similar-looking fossils of plants and animals on different land masses, ...

The Earth might be made up of multiple continents now, but long, long ago, all of the land was connected. At least, that's one of the theories that many scientists have about the earliest days of our ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on how ...

Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent ...