For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

Throughout Earth's history, there have been stories of vast, unexplored lands that vanished into the abyss of time. These "lost continents" have captivated explorers, historians, and geologists for ...

Those masses are the continents, made of rocks like granite, sandstone, gneiss, slate, andesite, rhyolite and more. The rest of the planets are almost entirely basalt or something close, but Earth. No ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

Scientists have eliminated one possible origin for Earth's continents. Despite the importance of Earth's continents, the huge pieces of the planet's crust that divide its oceans, very little is ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Late last year, scientists in New Zealand announced that they had created the most thorough map of any continent on planet Earth. For decades, the geologists had dug up and analyzed countless rock ...

Life might be a product of the abundant water and volcanism. The composition of the Earth’s continents might be a product of life’s interactions with rock. It is all deep time evolution of ...