Zealandia, often regarded as Earth’s hidden eighth continent, has been the subject of recent exploration and mapping, shedding light on this submerged landmass’s geological history. While approximately 95 percent of Zealandia lies beneath the ocean, researchers have made significant progress in documenting the northern two-thirds of this vast landmass, covering nearly two million square miles. …
This Saturday, July 8, a majority of the Earth’s population will be able to glimpse the sun’s rays. Ninety-nine percent of the world’s population, nearly eight billion people, will be able to see at least some sunlight at the same moment. Light will reach a majority of people on Earth for about a minute just …
Planet Earth will reach aphelion – farthest from the sun – at 20 UTC on July 6 (3 p.m. CDT) when it’s 94,506,364 miles (152,093,251 km) from the sun. It’s been a hot summer already in parts of the Northern Hemisphere. And Earth’s aphelion always comes in July, in the midst of Northern Hemisphere summer …
About 300 million years ago, there was a supercontinent called Pangaea, whose name comes from Greek and means “the whole earth”. At that time, all of Earth’s emerged lands were in a single landmass, surrounded by the Panthalassa Ocean. The Pangaea theory was proposed by Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist and geophysicist, in 1912. According …
