If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

Three main processes are known to generate the thick, stable, ancient rock that forms the roots of a continent, according to geologists. Diving of one tectonic plate beneath the other (which ...

Introduced in 1912, Albert Wegener’s theory of continental drift is one of the most well-known Earth theories out there. In it, Wegener suggests the earth’s land started as one mass, a supercontinent ...

Scientists have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why 'stable' parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.

Envision continents merging and forming a vast supercontinent Earth’s continents are currently keeping a safe distance from one another, but what if they did slam together again, Pangaea-style? What ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth's biomass. However, we still don't have firm answers to some basic questions ...

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster than researchers previously understood. Scientists now have direct evidence ...

A study on the continents titled "Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents" has been published in the journal Nature. Researchers from Curtin University have shown that giant meteorite ...

How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth’s biomass. However, we still don’t have firm answers to some basic questions ...

Africa's future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...