Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on how ...

How could a continent with a surface area of almost 5 million square kilometers, larger than India or almost two-thirds the size of Australia, remain absent from maps and ignored by the scientific ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...