Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Meridians (imaginary vertical lines going through the Earth from the North to the South Pole) are mapped onto vertical lines equally spaced apart on the map, and circles of latitude (imaginary ...

The largest two-dimensional map of the sky over Earth ever created just got even larger and is now covering almost half the sky over Earth. The map created with data from a six-year-long ...

The reason is that 95 per cent of its area is submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, disappearing long before humans existed on Earth ... a new geological map containing Zealandia.

"Just as detailed maps of the Earth's surface and atmosphere have enabled more accurate weather prediction, this thrillingly complete map of the magnetic fields in the sun's corona will help us ...