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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day, all the ...

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth has seven continents, but emerging research suggests that the number might ...

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 ...