In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based platforms, mobile apps, desktop software, and embedded systems for our home ...

Red backed shrikes migrate using a fixed schedule, flying in stages with little variation, showing that genetics guide bird ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

A research team at the Technical University of Munich has achieved an unprecedented scientific accomplishment by developing a ...

In the summer of 1977, while most people were listening to disco and trying to figure out Star Wars, NASA launched two small spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were simple-looking robots ...

Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

A team of Germany-based researchers recently unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, which is likely the most detailed 3D map of ...

Descriptions of Africa in elementary school textbooks, which have previously emphasized negative images such as poverty and hunger, will be revised.