The Earth is divided into seven major continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. Each continent showcases distinct geographical features, cultures, and ...

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 ...

A controversial new study suggests our geography textbooks should be rewritten. Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...