How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent – called ‘the Nubian continent’ – separated by the world’s sixth ocean. Ken MacDonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner ... have also explained that the separation would likely make a new ocean, too. So back in 2005, a 35-mile ...

Earth's five oceans were formed by the constant movement of tectonic plates beneath us, and the same process is already forming a sixth ocean in East Africa.

In Monday's issue of Nature Geoscience, a team of UK-based researchers tackle a big one: Mars' dichotomy, the somewhat nebulous boundary between ... the time when an ocean might have occupied ...

Recent scientific advancements have brought us closer to understanding the complex interactions between the Antarctic ice sheet and the Southern Ocean, responsible for significant sea level changes.