Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

An autonomous ocean robot, launched from Woods Hole, is attempting to complete a first-ever trip around the world.

JRR Tolkien springs to mind, of course, but now a new exhibition in London is showcasing the wonderful maps created by the revered sci-fi writer Ursula K Le Guin, who rooted her genre-defying stories ...

As cities grow denser and hotter, creating space for greenery becomes increasingly difficult. To address this challenge, ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Explore a future world map in 100 years! See how Europe, Russia, India, and the Americas could look in 2125 with shifting ...

A bridge constructed in Lincoln Park for sightseeing during the turn of the century soon became known as a place for death.

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

The first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star reveals an atmosphere with distinct temperature zones.

The fantasy and science fiction writer found her way into her invented worlds by making maps and then mentally exploring them.

Bush’s “Big Bang” theory of regional transformation, then Venezuela has become Trump’s test of hemispheric re-engineering.

A team of 14 explorers will depart for Nikumaroro, a remote speck of an island halfway between Australia and Hawaii on Nov. 4 ...