The knowledge of how Earth recycled its crust revealed that fragments of continents slowly peeled away and swept deep beneath ...

The first half-billion years of Earth science were gnarly. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Earth was just a wee young thing, ...

Earth's first continents emerged from the oceans around 3.3–3.2 billion years ago — at least 700 million years earlier than previously thought, a study has concluded. Researchers from Monash ...

New research presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union highlights the future of our continents – a future which suggests renewed unity, quite literally. Just as our continents ...

AN ONLINE map shows where your house would have stood hundreds of millions of years ago. Crafted by California scientist Ian Webster, the interactive tool reveals how far your hometown has moved due ...

Earth’s continents were created by giant meteor impacts, according to a group of scientists studying ancient rock formations in Australia. Coauthor Tim Johnson said in a statement that researchers had ...

Earth's continents were formed when our planet was bombarded with giant meteorites around 3.5 billion years ago, a new study has found. Researchers from Curtin University in Perth, Australia analysed ...

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Monks Cowl in the Great Escarpment of South Africa. This dramatic formation arose during the ...

"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...

56 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place as a cataclysmic event caused global temperatures to rise and all ice to melt in a period known by scientists as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal ...