Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world. It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex. Researchers are constantly ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Lakshadweep is often hailed as India's Coral Island. Learn about its unique formation as an archipelago of true coral atolls, ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving ...

Africa’s landscapes are full of drama—towering cliffs, sculpted sandstone, balancing boulders and ancient rock walls etched ...

Recent research shows that, over 200 million years ago, Greece was part of a lost continent scientists referred to as ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface are revealing clues into how the planet formed and evolved, as well as the formation of life on ...

The name '3I/ATLAS' is the only detail scientists agree on. From Elon Musk's warnings to Avi Loeb's Jupiter theory, discover why this interstellar visitor is baffling the world.

Current theories suggest the early Earth formed a mantle billions of years ago from a massive magma ocean, separating more concentrated from less concentrated material over time, not unlike “frozen ...