For millions of years, Earth's continents have been slowly drifting across the planet—and scientists believe they're heading ...

A humble charcoal inscription discovered on a Pompeii wall has rewritten history. Previously believed to have erupted in ...

An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion ...

An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet ...

Think you know the 7 continents? Think again. For your entire life, you’ve been told the Earth has seven continents… but ...

Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents to make life possible. A study in Terra Nova argues that the planet's earliest ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...

Repeated asteroid impacts during Earth's early history may have pumped so much heat into the planet's interior that stable ...

New research led by Curtin University and QUT (Queensland University of Technology) has revealed that repeated asteroid ...

A new study says repeated asteroid impacts drove heat deep into the young Earth and kept its crust weak. This suggests heavy bombardment may have helped form continents while erasing most Hadean rocks ...