Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Will any continent split in two one day? Yes. While how the Earth will look in millions of years can be hard to predict, ...

This journey begins in Africa, a continent made up of 54 countries mostly occupied by the indigenous people of dark-skinned ...

The city of Port Aransas, Texas is gearing up to celebrate one of North America's most iconic migratory birds later this ...

It usually spreads out as a gently sloping area, until it drops sharply at the continental slope. The boundary of the shelf is defined in terms of the foot of the slope or the line where the depth ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

Burgum directed Interior staff to draw up detailed plans to implement his orders within 15 days, kicking off his tenure at ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...