This new perspective on Earth’s continents challenges long-held assumptions and invites geologists to rethink how continents ...

A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the countries of the world, almost 200, including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Plate tectonics have long been shifting the Earth's continents and since Australia separated from Antarctica, it has been slowly moving north. Article continues below However, scientists predict ...

Each up to 559 miles tall and thousands of miles wide—and together covering some 25 percent of the surface of our planet's core— Earth's LLVPs were first discovered in the 1980s, when ...

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive ... allowed them to visualise the inside of our planet, even at depths inaccessible by humans ...