By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are seven in all. And if you get the gist, we’re going to make a list, From biggest to small … Your kids may have come home from ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

Welcome to 'Race Across the Continents', explorer! The day has finally arrived for a brave group of explorers to join the ‘Race Across the Continents’, in their trusty hot air balloon.

Forget what you learned in elementary school — The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, Antarctica, Asia ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American, African, and Antarctic plates. Though smaller in size, the minors are no less important when it ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly ...

Hello, friends! This is David Cole, the host of Our Offbeat Life travel podcast. Today, I want to share some exciting ...

Our planet's continents were once joined together into one supercontinent called Pangea. It formed about 335 million years ago, but by the end of the Jurassic, this single landmass had begun to break ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the ...

Zeinab Badawi "There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today." You can watch History of ...

A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists announced in a recent study. In fact, the research showed that vegetation ...

Delta Air Lines, a U.S.-based airline, carries roughly 200 million flyers annually, with more than 4,000 daily flights to about 275 destinations across six continents. Like most airlines ...