The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

History teachers love making everything sound clean and simple. "This happened, then that happened, everyone learned a lesson ...

The story of Atlantis, a mythological continent that vanished into the sea after its inhabitants displeased the gods, has ...

Do you know which continent is permanently covered with snow? Explore why Antarctica holds this distinction, along with its location, climate, ice coverage, importance and interesting facts in this ...

The Atacama Desert lies along the northern edge of Chile, a long strip pressed between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes. It is ...

Australia stands unique as the world's only country that is also an entire continent. This 'land Down Under' experiences ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers of natural carbon emissions, ...

The Earth's crust is composed of approximately 15 to 20 tectonic plates, which float on molten magma beneath the Earth.

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.