Discover the longest walking route in the world, spanning 16 countries, 2 continents, and 6 time zones, spanning over 14,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists also believe its ancient rocks, found in Western Australia’s Jack Hills, could hold important clues about how Earth became habitable. Unlike other continents, Australia has remained ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...

when a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. During the Triassic Period, when dinosaurs first evolved, all the continents we know today were clumped together in a single landmass called Pangaea. Over ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.