If Earth's first continents formed by subduction, that meant that continents started moving between 3.6 to 4 billion years ago—as little as 500 million years into the planet's existence.

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea. Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes ...

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

New maps have taught us more about how this continent was formed - but have you ever wondered why we have continents, and where they all came from? It's a continent that's mainly underwater.