Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Orbital explores the raw reality of life in space, devoid of fantasy.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

This month: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is leaving the inner solar system but should be ... sky and is approaching the time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from Earth. This happens every fourteen ...

Part 3 of the Evolution of Kempton Park series shows more stark differences in Google Maps images from 2009/2010 and the most ...

“This is a region that we don’t typically associate with drought,” said Benjamin Cook, an adjunct research scientist at the ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

November's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, will be the last supermoon of the year, and you can catch it next week.

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Google has decided to bring AI features to its virtual map platforms which include Google Maps, Google Earth, and Waze. The ...

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing ...