The Earth formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago, according to National Geographic. If the world was captured all those years ago, the land masses would’ve been structured completely different to ...

Australia may seem like a stable landmass, but it’s slowly creeping northward, heading straight for Asia at a surprising ...

Scientists will soon venture to the world's hidden eighth continent, the sunken land of Zealandia. The lost continent, which is mostly submerged, with all of New Zealand and a few islands peeking out ...

Did you know there are seven massive landmasses on Earth called continents? These include Asia, Africa, North America, South ...

For most people, continents are Earth’s seven main large landmasses. But geoscientists have a different take on this. They look at the type of rock a feature is made of, rather than how much of its ...

Seen from space, our planet has often been called a "blue marble." It's not, however, just the swirly white clouds that give Earth its marbled appearance. The continents: They are what complete the ...

World of Warcraft's most recent update, Patch 10.1.5, includes an increase in the default viewing distance for classic continents like Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, allowing players to see large ...

Continents do not just break apart at the surface -- they also peel away from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature Geoscience. Researchers ...