Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

Sheinbaum Pardo projected a map authored in 1607 that labels a rough drawing of North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America, and also names the Gulf of Mexico, already at the time a ...

More of North America’s land is covered by rivers than we thought, according to a new map. Scientists came up with a way to use satellite images to estimate the width of rivers and found that ...

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies.