If the next generation of global industry is going to draw on Africa’s critical minerals, what scale of planning can ...

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Extended Continental Shelf likened to a new 'basement'—nearly 60% of Alaska. Mead Treadwell of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission explains.

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Henry Knox was only 25 years old when commissioned by Continental Army commander George Washington in 1775 to transport 59 ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

The U.S. successfully claimed another one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its extended continental ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...