A new study has revealed that two continent-sized regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting ...

Africa is splitting apart and, in five to ten million years, will become two separate continents divided by a new, sixth ...

The geological history of Earth makes a new continent seem insignificant. Pangea, the enormous landmass that gave rise to all of the continents, broke apart into the continents that exist today. We ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever ...

A University of Bristol simulation predicts the formation of supercontinent Pangaea Ultima within 250 million years, making ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.