Forget what you learned in elementary school — The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, Antarctica, Asia ...

Let’s face it: kids are not smart. That’s fine; they’re not meant to be – they have a lot of growing and learning left to do, ...

Data from NASA satellites show a plunge in freshwater on Earth since May 2014, with 13 of the 30 most powerful droughts ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

Geologists disagree on how many continents Earth has, with answers ranging from two to nine. Europe and Asia are visibly connected, as are the Americas, making their dividing lines cultural rather ...

A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa ...

At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa. The explanation for Pangaea's formation ushered in the modern theory of ...

The data collected by GRACE revealed that beginning in May 2014, there was a plunge in Earth's freshwater supply, and the planet has still not recovered. The researchers suggest that this evidence ...

Geologists used to think Earth had six continents, but a new study adds a seventh: "Zealandia." Recent satellite data and rock samples are behind the conclusion. New Zealand and New Caledonia are ...

A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the countries of the world, almost 200, including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the ...

To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on ...