Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Longyearbyen, Norway, and Ushuaia, Argentina, offer travelers the opportunity to see unspoiled landscapes, rare wildlife, and vast glacial ice—along with a spirit of endurance and camaraderie.

New images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a Jupiter-bound mission showcase interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ahead of its ...

New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...