New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

From Atlantis to Terra Australis, history is full of maps showing continents that never existed. These aren’t fantasy—they ...

If you've ever looked at a world map, you might notice a big, blue patch nestled between Europe, Asia, and Africa. That’s the Mediterranean Sea—a shimmering str ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut at the ISS, has captivated the world with stunning Earth images.

Beyond student visas and sleek skylines are personal journeys filled with culture shocks, fierce resilience, and the search ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

This map is a Spilhaus projection, showing the world's seas and oceans as a single body of water, centred on Antarctica and bordered by continents. Source: Australian Antarctic Program Partnership.

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...

Have an existential crisis about your place in the vast scale of a fictional universe by diving deep into the newly updated ...

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 ...

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 ...