Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

Newly released, first-of-its-kind agriculture maps of the state of Hawaiʻi are expected to help policymakers, land managers ...

Greg Seitz was 16 when he took his first canoe trip down the St. Croix River. He and other members of the Bio-Earth Club at Stillwater Area High School put in at the Osceola, Wis., landing and paddled ...

A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...

Scientists have drilled down into the Antarctic ice sheet, largely in an attempt to understand the Earth's past climate. The ...

Africa Re-Union Debuts at FNB Art Joburg at the Sandton Convention Center. The Africa Re-Union, a landmark artistic ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker’s yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity among lifeforms. Of the 1.67m known species of animal, plant, fungi and ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.