The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Google Earth is celebrating its 20th anniversary by allowing users to access historical Street View images directly in the ...

Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions and mapping technology. But maps have always been political, ...

Danas was a tropical storm in the East China Sea Monday afternoon Taiwan time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said in its ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Chantal was a tropical depression over North Carolina Sunday afternoon Eastern time, the National Hurricane Center said in ...

Scientists just sequenced the first sea spider genome, uncovering genetic clues to limb growth, regeneration, and ancient ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...