Earth's continents are losing 4 Olympic swimming pools' worth of fresh water every second, with dire consequences for jobs, ...

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day, all the ...

The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...

Earth’s continents aren’t as solid as they look. Scientists say parts of them are actually being peeled from below by deep ...

Several exoplanets at the edge of our galaxy could have formed continents — and advanced life — 5 billion years earlier than Earth, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

How many continents does Earth really have? While most of us learned there are seven, new geological research suggests the ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and Michigan Tech geologist Chad Deering advances the understanding of the role that continents have played in the chemical ...

Earth is the only planet known to possess continents. In a new study published August 23 in the journal Geology, researchers suggest unexpected seeds for the formation of the first continents on our ...

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements essential for high-technology and national security applications. Scientists at ...

Earth’s continents were created by giant meteor impacts, according to a group of scientists studying ancient rock formations in Australia. Coauthor Tim Johnson said in a statement that researchers had ...

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 ...