A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space. The photo has been changed so we can see all of the earth’s surface in one picture. The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean.

The surface area of our Earth is covered with water and continents in which continents are spread over 29.1% of total Earth's surface (510,065,600 km 2 / 196,937,400 square miles). Continents are the ...

Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought. A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an ...

Two Harvard scientists have found that the dark areas of Mars rise six to nine miles above the brighter deserts, contradicting the standard theory that Mars is an almost smooth planet. In the ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

To the Ends of the Earth: The Natural World - Oceans is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon ...