A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...

It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends ...

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in ... of their map image,” says ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of a puzzling seismic disturbance. First, there was an avalanche. Then, there was a ...

The strange rumble was detected in mid-September last year. An odd seismic signal appeared at scientific stations around the ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

Scientist monitoring both the polar vortex above the Arctic and the polar vortex over Antarctic, which has shown a ...

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

An Earth-sized telescope that combines numerous arrays captures the highest-ever resolution observations for a ground-based ...

“Nobody really knows what all there is to it,” Hanson said of geography, which boasts only two incoming freshmen. “People ...