A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Beneath the South Pacific Ocean lies a microcontinent that was hidden for over 300 years. Zealandia, which separated from Australia millions of years ago and was once Earth's eighth continent, is a ...

The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...

What if we say that all these years, we were in the dark? And there are eight continents on Earth? shocking, right? Scientists have finally found Earth's lost eighth continent, and it is hardly ...

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet, and they could hold clues about ...

A giant continent, bigger than India, vanished beneath the Pacific Ocean for centuries, and the world didn’t even notice. Now ...

Zealandia broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana millions of years ago then sank. It's hard to study an underwater landmass, but researchers say they've created a complete map. Studying ...

New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to oceanic ...