Many continental names come from outsiders rather than the people who lived there. Using native endonyms reveals a very ...

Scientists have found over 300 underwater canyons that spread out from the continental margins of Antarctica, some of which ...

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates. The map ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Jim Wigginton holds nine world records in stair-climbing, skydiving and submersible diving. He breaks records to raise money ...

For us, the image shows one of the strangest things Mars ever threw at us: a replica of Earth’s continents, as seen on a flat map of our planet, spread out over the Martian surface.

The new map is the latest example of years of research and critique by Gott and his colleagues on existing 2D maps of Earth. In 2007 Gott and Goldberg created a ranking system that gave every 2D ...

Bizarre Plastic Rocks Now Found Across Five Continents Published Dec 17, 2023 at 5:00 AM EST Updated Dec 18, 2023 at 12:51 PM EST ...

But though the continents had assumed their permanent outlines, extensive tracts of land still remained covered with ocean. Inland seas, sheets of water like the Mediterranean, so unique in our ...