Scientists confirm the northern boundaries of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, is submerged across almost two million ...

An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight ...

Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental material despite their distance from continental plates.

Earth's earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new ...

A new study of the chemical components of rocks led by researchers at Penn State and Columbia University provides the clearest evidence yet for how Earth's continents became and remained so stable — ...

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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, ...

Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows that today's climate models ...