Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet.

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that ... By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are seven in all. And if you get the gist, we’re going to make a list, From biggest ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa ...

"Plate tectonics unified all these descriptions ... very different from today." As the continents jostle around the Earth, they occasionally come together to form giant supercontinents or a ...

Over the past 2 billion years, Earth's continents have collided together to form a supercontinent ... were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

As Earth cools, a crust forms over it ... About 2,500 mya, the continents join together to form the first supercontinent. Scientific evidence suggests the planet's major continents have come ...

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. The dust particles were brought together by the forces of drag to form ...

NASA astronaut Nick Hague with the International Space Station's amateur or ham radio equipment during his current mission ...