New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists know that the world’s continents emerged during the Archean eon, which stretched from about 4 ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now, researchers ...

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The oldest continents in our galaxy may have arisen 5 billion years before Earth’s, new research suggests — and that means there may be multiple worlds in the Milky Way harboring alien life even more ...

Planet Earth is constantly evolving. For billions of years, continents have shifted, smashed into others, reformed, and ...

Join us as we explore Pangaea, the massive supercontinent that once united all of Earth’s landmasses. See how it looked and how it eventually split apart to form the continents we know today. Mike ...

Scientists have discovered ancient diamonds which have provided new clues about the Earth’s evolution. Researchers discovered ancient superdeep diamonds, which hail from mines in Brazil and Western ...