It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why the tectonic plates are moving the way they are.” This is the insight from ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Geologists confirmed the existence of a hidden continent named Zealandia beneath the South Pacific Ocean. Covering ...

A massive crack is forming beneath one of the world's continents, and scientists believe it could one day split the continent ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we ...

You are probably more than familiar with the map of the world today ... Atlantic Ocean was the result of these three continents going their separate ways. This separation occurred, very roughly ...

The map is, in fact, one of the oldest Christian world maps, dating back to the 8th century. The cartographer uses the ever-prominent T-O pattern to separate continents, splitting them with a massive ...

Scientists have issued a warning that a moving continent is on a collision course with Asia – a natural but potentially catastrophic event that will alter the world as we know it. Australia is ...

As a result, a new ocean would be introduced to the world. In addition ... As these plates separate, they could move portions of Africa’s landmass away from the connected continent. In other words, ...

swamp the Afar region (and the East African Rift Valley), forming the world’s sixth ocean and creating a new land mass in East Africa. When the split is completed, a new continent -- separate ...

We like to call Hawaii the smallest or most compact continent. Hawaii has more range of elevation than all but 4 states. Eight of 9 world climate zones. One of the wettest and one of the driest ...