In 2017, a team of scientists drilled into the world's eighth continent Zealandia which had been missing for nearly 400 years ...

One Planet series that highlights the incredible rich and wonderful diversity of life found on our planets seven unique continents. Millions of years ago huge forces ripped apart the Earth's crust ...

The East African Rift is splitting the continent, forming a new ocean and reshaping Earth’s geography, ecosystems, and ...

The oceans were probably where Earth's most remarkable feature emerged: life. Our planet is still the only place where we know life has arisen. The large green patches spanning Earth's continents ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently ... the behaviour of continents and plate tectonics.

If Earth's first continents formed by subduction, that meant that continents started moving between 3.6 to 4 billion years ago—as little as 500 million years into the planet's existence.

Antarctica is Earth's frozen continent. Covering 5.5 million square ... Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several years ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

Either way, the continent at the bottom of our planet is 200 years old, so we thought we’d celebrate with some facts about the the coldest place on Earth. Antarctica was first sighted by humans ...