Planet Earth is constantly evolving. For billions of years, continents have shifted, smashed into others, reformed, and broken apart to form new tectonic plate arrangements. This phenomenon is ...

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Massive terrestrial planets, called “super-Earths,” are known to be common in Earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way. Now a Northwestern University astrophysicist and a University of Chicago geophysicist ...

Satellite images stitched together to reveal the world's continents. The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a ...

Remains of the “lost continent” known as Argoland, which once stretched the width of the United States, have been found, researchers said. Photo from Thomas Vimare, UnSplash While Atlantis — a fabled ...

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 ...

We all had to learn geography in school. Memorizing capitals, tracing rivers on maps, and trying to remember which mountain ...

Seen from space, our planet has often been called a "blue marble." It's not, however, just the swirly white clouds that give Earth its marbled appearance. The continents: They are what complete the ...

While Atlantis — a fabled continent said to have been swallowed by the sea — continues to elude its seekers, another long-lost and less famous landmass has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean.