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, ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Based on a series of models considering how the continents were ...

Zealandia broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana millions of years ago then sank. It's hard to study an underwater landmass, but researchers say they've created a complete map. Studying ...

A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

A scientist built a web tool that lets you find out where your town was millions of years ago on Earth. Earth's plates have shifted a lot over the eons, and the landmasses that we see as continents ...

We all know what Earth looks like, either as the round ball of rock that it is as seen from space or as the flattened representation of it we use for our global maps. These images are so familiar to ...