Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

What is the biggest continent? Earth is covered by three-fourths ocean waters. The remaining land is mostly split into seven main divisions. These continents are Asia, Europe, North America, South ...

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 ...

The continent of Antarctica was the last of the 7 continents for humans to set foot on. This leaves a lot of untouched nature and geographical phenomena to explore, and a huge opportunity for humanity ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, a supercontinent called Pangaea formed. For about 125 million years, it contained almost all of the dry land on Earth. Since then, chunks of Pangaea have drifted ...

"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania has revealed shocking information about modern humans in ...

In partnership with White Desert—the only company offering private jet access to the interior of the continent—TCS will whisk ...