Our understanding of Earth's continents might need an update based ... This research follows Phethean’s earlier discovery of ...

The concept of a hidden land beneath Iceland that could ... As scientists reconsider the structure of Earth’s continents, ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

The study confirms that microcontinent formation isn’t ancient history—it’s an active, ongoing process shaping Earth’s future. If Iceland is part of a submerged continent, Earth’s ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

Found beneath the continent of North America ... this reservoir has important implications. By controlling Earth’s surface oceans, scientists think this hidden water could be vital to their stability.

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, Earth's molten crust solidified unseen, leaving geologists to piece together how lighter continents separated from the dense mantle below—a slow, hidden process now ...

The Earth's continents are far from constant ... Only recently, scientists mapped the hidden continent of Zealandia located in the Southern Ocean. Africa's split "will be just another move ...

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 ...