This holiday season, skip the ordinary. Journey to Antarctica with Atlas Ocean Voyages and discover glaciers, wildlife, and ...

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

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar system by more than 3 billion years, researchers say.

‘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 ...

If you've seen a world map or travelled to Australia then you'll know just how far away it is from other continents - but this is slowly (very, very slowly) changing. In fact, the continent is ...

Seven continents, 102,000 miles, 13 months and countless lessons you wouldn’t learn in school ...

Earth’s geology has shaped the planet over billions of years, with continents constantly coming together and breaking apart. Today, scientists predict a radically different world in the future—one ...

This latest map is able to portray both an accurate size and shape of the Earth’s landmasses, thereby resolving the two issues of previous world maps. The search for an unbiased, well-proportioned ...