Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly ...

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 ...

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 ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Based on a series of models considering how the continents were ...

A sudden swarm of earthquakes in Montana set off fears that the supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park could be reawakened in early July, spewing more lava by volume than there is ice in the ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that ...

We are often asked how often Google updates the imagery in Google Earth. The answer depends on where you live and can be anywhere from once a week to never. For much of the world, there are certain ...