Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

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

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

As an accompanying university announcement explains, seismologists study the planet ... of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents ...

Oceania is a region of islands which includes Australia but is not classed as a continent. Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on ...