For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. However, a recent study is ...

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...

A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the countries of the world, almost 200, including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a handful of smaller ones.

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers ... oceans to an average of 25 miles (40 kilometers) thick beneath the continents. Currents within the mantle have broken the crust into blocks ...

Mars has continents, Pollack continued, it must have geological activity, too. Just as on the Earth, there must be forces within the planet that have molded the surface, pushing the continents ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...