Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now ...

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

For nearly 400 years, the vast underwater landmass known today as Zealandia went largely unnoticed—hidden in plain sight beneath the Pacific Ocean. At nearly two million square miles, this submerged ...

Along a stretch of scorched desert in Ethiopia, the ground quietly opened one afternoon in 2005. A gash nearly 35 miles (56.33 km) long split the earth wide, as if the land had simply decided to give ...

A new analysis argues that Earth’s magnetic field during the Ediacaran had structure hiding inside its wild swings. The work points to a pattern that could finally let scientists place continents more ...