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 ...

New research presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union highlights the future of our continents – a future which suggests renewed unity, quite literally. Just as our continents ...

These 25 disturbing facts about our changing continents will shatter your perception of Earth as a stable platform and reveal the violent, unstoppable forces reshaping our world. From splitting ...

The longevity of Earth's continents in the face of destructive tectonic activity is an essential geologic backdrop for the emergence of life on our planet. This stability depends on the underlying ...

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 ...

Filming has begun on Our Continents, a new historical and cultural biography of the world produced by Story House Productions for ZDF’s Terra X slot in association with ARTE and ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) ...

When Earth was just a wee young thing, it birthed many new continents — then it swallowed them all up, leaving just a few traces behind, a new study shows. These first continents had a knack for ...

Washington, DC-- The longevity of Earth's continents in the face of destructive tectonic activity is an essential geologic backdrop for the emergence of life on our planet. This stability depends on ...