The Olympic rings are among the most recognizable logo in the world. But what do the five rings mean? You might be surprised ...

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

Microscopic zircon crystals discovered in Western Australia suggest that Earth may have had continental crust as early as 4.4 ...

A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of ...

Starting with Ur and Vaalbara--Earth's first continent and supercontinent--the world has seen supercontinents come and go. The most recent supercontinent was Pangea, which existed about 250 million ...

First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s ...