The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In ...

In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, “Correct the Map,” calling for depictions that show Africa’s true scale. “For ...

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

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

A new study reveals that coastal population growth between 2000 and 2018 exceeded that of inland areas worldwide.

There is a direct link between Earth’s crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way’s structure, as found by a new study.

Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Earlier in 2025, UNSW Sydney Ph.D. candidate Christina Schmidt submitted her thesis—from the deck of Australia's multi-billion-dollar icebreaker, just off the East Antarctic coast.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening new ground in ecology. At Rice University, César A. Uribe is developing computational ...

Scientists have uncovered a vast freshwater aquifer beneath the Atlantic that could help ease the global water crisis if ...