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The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ...

In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.

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 ...

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived unscathed. Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour ...

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

As continental landmasses rose above sea level to meet wind and rain effects around 3 billion years ago, they underwent a ...

Earth’s evolution has been shaped by a series of severe environmental crises that occurred millions of years ago, profoundly ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet's ...