Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

China's most prestigious watchmaker follows its award-winning timepiece with a watch for the other hemisphere.

‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’: On a quest to fix the world map Commonly used projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is ...

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 ...

World champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States are one point behind Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada in ice dance at the figure skating Four Continents in Seoul.

The 2030 FIFA World Cup will send dozens of football teams and hordes of fans crisscrossing the globe for matches on three continents, sparking alarm over the environmental cost.

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, there ...

The seven continents of the world—Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia—each offer distinct characteristics and features.

Personal Perspective: A simple "map of reality" for classifying things in the world.

The World Map Before we tackle the Dark Continent, we'll start with a basic explanation of the map and its contents.

I’m part of a group of scientists who have just combined satellite data with field measurements to produce the first map of green vegetation across the whole Antarctic continent.