Why does Earth have continents? Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why.

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Most continents are more than just their cratons, so we know that the continents didn't form all at once in the early history of the Earth. You can check out a map of the world's cratons below to get ...

To test the theory, the team quantified the north–south symmetry of continents throughout the Earth’s history. The researchers did this using reconstructed locations of continents projected onto a 2D ...

Most people know that Earth’s landmasses once formed single supercontinent, but how said continent peeled away from itself – or the extent to which Earth’s continents remain connected – is ...

The video begins with a familiar map of Earth's current continents but quickly transports viewers back in time. It reveals the formation of ancient supercontinents like Gondwana, Pangaea, and ...

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day ...

For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but their deaths fertilized life on the surface.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...