Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth’s crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding ...

Scientists say this “giant hot blob” is part of a deep mantle structure that has already helped tear continents apart once, ...

Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant ...

The Earth might be made up of multiple continents now, but long, long ago, all of the land was connected. At least, that's one of the theories that many scientists have about the earliest days of our ...