Welcome to 'Race Across the Continents', explorer! The day has finally arrived for a brave group of explorers to join the ‘Race Across the Continents’, in their trusty hot air balloon. However, their ...

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 ...

Scientists have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why 'stable' parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.