After analyzing "super-continent" structures deep inside the Earth, scientists believe they could be up to billions of years old.

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

The continents of America and Europe are slowly becoming further apart as the Atlantic Ocean gets wider due to forces deep ...