Almost 2 million years before the first moon landing, someone else took "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It was Homo erectus, the longest-surviving human species in history, and ...

Every continent has a name, but most of them aren’t their own. What if we used the names the people actually living there chose?

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists know that the world’s continents emerged during the Archean eon, which stretched from about 4 ...

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 ...

The disappearance of Argoland presented something of a problem to geologists if it couldn’t be found. “If continents can dive into the mantle and disappear entirely, without leaving a geological trace ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

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The Paris Olympics came to an end on Sunday night with an exciting closing ceremony to bid farewell to the games in which the best athletes from across the world competed for glory and the shiny ...