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 ...

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

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

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

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

This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Arms Race.” ...

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

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

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

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

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 ...