In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for that reason. The divide is pretty arbitrary, more culturally ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

If you went to school in the US or the UK, you probably learned that there are seven continents. But that number really depends on where you grew up. Elsewhere, you probably learned that there are ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant valleys and rugged, rocky plains that were once the ocean floor, connecting ...

Since National Geographic began making maps in 1915 ... While the other oceans are defined by the continents that fence them in, the Southern Ocean is defined by a current. Scientists estimate ...

Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist, explained how the layout of our Earth will change over millions of years ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow macaroni either. If one looks closely, the east coast of North America is ...

NASA’s DAVINCI mission, set for the early 2030s, aims to explore Venus’s Alpha Regio, a potentially ancient continent ...

The rules vary from place to place, but the idea is to allow nature to flourish by limiting human activity as much as ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...