Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts ... The process renews the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ...

The study revealed that Ridge A has an average winter temperature ... be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth.” The site would even be superior to the best existing ...

These bodies of water contain 97 percent of Earth's volcanoes and the mid-ocean ridge, a massive mountain range more than 40,000 miles long. Earth's crust and upper mantle are divided into massive ...