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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...