Forget the neat, tidy narratives you might have heard in school about a stable, unchanging Earth. Just like history, our ...

Earth has six continents not seven, radical study claims ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements essential for high-technology and national security applications. Scientists at ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...