If you want to, you can look up reviews for all of Earth’s continents and oceans. Want to know how the Atlantic Ocean compares to the Arctic Ocean? Now Google Maps has the answer.

It lets us see that even the map of the world is full of mystery. Continents and oceans, we have them both. But it didn't have to be this way. And on most planets, it probably isn't.

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a billion years earlier than geoscientists had suspected for the ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...