Is Africa splitting and creating a new ocean and two new continents? This is what some scientists believe will happen in the future. According to the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

Ancient, expansive tracts of continental crust called cratons have helped keep Earth's continents stable for billions of years, even as landmasses shift, mountains rise and oceans form. A new ...

Earth's continents are set to merge into a single landmass over the next 250 million years, an animation shows. The animation was posted Tuesday to Reddit, where it quickly gained over 3,500 comments ...

You might think that this is a simple enough question. There are seven continents, right? After all, this is what’s taught in the American public school system. Students in the United States learn ...

The formation of the Earth’s continents occurred during a fiery afterbirth known as the Archean Eon, which stretched from 4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago. It was in this bubbling cauldron of ...