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

South Greenland is increasingly targeted for new mining projects as global demand for critical minerals continues to grow.

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

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 ...

Earth scientists have uncovered an unexpected geological process linking continents and oceanic volcanoes. Beneath the Earth’s surface, fragments of continental roots appear to drift into the oceanic ...