But now scientists have produced a new 2D map that accurately shows Earth and its continents ... area projections and to give it the catchy name Equal Earth." What they ended up with was a ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists ... The team wanted to resolve the persistent issue of how 2D images of the 3D globe always end up distorting the ...

Shige s full name is Maruyama Shigenori ... The geophysicist thus paints a three-dimensional picture of the planet Earth where, in addition to the continents drifting on the surface, there ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia ...

Wikus De Wet/AFP via Getty Images When and how Earth's earliest continents, the cratons, first rose above the oceans remains uncertain. Previous research suggested this emergence began roughly 2.5 ...

In a picture of Saturn's rings taken on ... We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,' said ...

Scientists have recently unearthed that the Earth was more of a "water world" rather than the mega continents that we ... "I imagine a picture kind of like what it must look like to approach ...

The results paint a picture of a lifeless Earth as an unrecognisable water-world with very few continents, if any at all. “It is the first time the biosphere has been taken into account when ...

(Credit: Subham Mukherjee/Inside Science) (Inside Science) — Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans ... major cratons spanning the same time frame to get a complete picture of ...

and finding them could help fill in the global picture of when and how Earth's first continents appeared, Bindeman told Live Science. Originally published on Live Science. Join our Space Forums to ...

Earth's first continents emerged from the oceans around 3.3–3.2 billion years ago — at least 700 million years earlier than previously thought, a study has concluded. Researchers from Monash ...