The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

The concepts of continents have confused people from their very beginning. Today I try to see if I can do any better at dividing the world up into manageable units.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian and ...

King Philip II of Spain decreed Madrid – a somewhat sleepy mountain town in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula – the capital ...

The hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada may forever transform the country’s landscape — but some fire experts say that ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars , with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to happen one day, it is har ...

In a discovery that spans millennia and continents, scientists found over 260 matching dinosaur tracks separated by the Atlantic Ocean.

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist ...