"These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica." ...
only six continents. Emerging from an extensive investigation into the geological dance that separated Europe from North America, this study delves deep into the history of Earth's landmasses.
Discover the connection between volcanic events and the rise of Earth's oxygen levels that enabled complex life to thrive.
Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...
Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...
The Earth is full of life, but as any experienced traveler or nature documentary watcher can testify, some places have far more of it than others. While life does cling to everything it can, an ...
Plate tectonics have long been shifting the Earth's continents and since Australia separated from Antarctica, it has been slowly moving north. However, scientists predict that this will eventually ...
when a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. During the Triassic Period, when dinosaurs first evolved, all the continents we ...