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

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 ...

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

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

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

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

Who would have thought we could map hidden parts of the galaxy by looking at the composition of tiny crystals in Earth’s ...

A massive bloom of floating brown algae, stretching more than 8,800 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, is troubling ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

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.

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...