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, ...

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, ...

We all know what Earth looks like, either as the round ball of rock that it is as seen from space or as the flattened representation of it we use for our global maps. These images are so familiar to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Monks Cowl in the Great Escarpment of South Africa. This dramatic formation arose during the ...

For the past two years or so, some of us here at autoevolution have been looking at photos of Mars and tried to bring before your eyes the most exciting and unexpected details of a place we might be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Based on a series of models considering how the continents were ...

Zealandia broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana millions of years ago then sank. It's hard to study an underwater landmass, but researchers say they've created a complete map. Studying ...

Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps. That's because almost 95 percent of its land mass is submerged thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean. Zealandia — or ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About halfway between your feet and the center of Earth, two continent-size mountains of hot, ...