Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

Now, a new study questions whether these continents ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ago ... was created by a hot mantle plume rising from deep inside the Earth. But emerging new ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will eventually break apart altogether - with one US academic now theorising this could ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Landmasses from Earth’s distant past are ... Argoland was a continent that purportedly split from northwestern Australia before drifting northwest toward Southeast Asia. Its disappearance ...

This was when the Earth was ... Once the split becomes large enough for a body of water to form, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent – called ...

Oceania is a region of islands which includes Australia but is not classed as a continent. Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers suggest North America and Eurasia might be connected ...