For centuries, explorers searched for a mythical Great Southern Land, but when Antarctica was finally discovered, its true name had a fascinating story of its own!

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, ...

Geologists have long viewed North America and Europe as separate continents, yet new studies suggest there might be more complexity beneath the surface of Earth’s oceans. Ongoing research has revealed ...

SO WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING? SEVEN MARATHONS AND SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS ON ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS. YES, YOU HEARD HIM RIGHT. IT’S CALLED THE WORLD MARATHON CHALLENGE. ANTARCTICA. AFRICA. AUSTRALIA.

However, Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) remains the only African airport with regularly scheduled nonstop passenger flights to and from the world's six inhabited continents. It is ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

At the end of the last century, an analysis of these oscillations showed the existence of two subsurface ‘super-continents’: one under Africa and the other one under the Pacific Ocean, both hidden ...

For a band so well-known for their dark, gloomy, and sadly relatable subject matter, it’s interesting that they went with the name “Joy Division”. Is there a deeper meaning there?

There has, therefore, been some confusion over the naming of the storm – especially with Storm Floris the next on the list of storm names. Here is why we have seemingly jumped ahead to Herminia.

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers suggest North America and Eurasia might be connected ...

Breaking up is hard to do, but one of the world's continents is going through the difficult process even if it's going to take a lot of time. While the current maps of the world are fairly ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the ...