The UNESCO World Heritage Site was constructed over the course of 2,000 years. It worked as a fortification system to defend ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map.

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions. A sparkling mass containing at least half a million ...

Large-scale study maps the first step in Alzheimer's protein aggregation by Susannah Young, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Shaquille O’Neal also said the Earth was flat in an interview in 2017, then later claimed he was just messing with people. Wiz, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be trolling.

The debate about Earth’s shape dates back to ancient civilization, according to scientists like Dr. James Garvin. The Greeks and Egyptians documented evidence of the world’s roundness.

As illustrated in the map below, based on data from the latest U.S. Geological Survey report on rare earths, China holds the world's largest rare earth reserves, estimated at 44 million metric tons.

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland 's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

Colorado pastor Will Duffy organized an expedition to Antarctica in December called "The Final Experiment" in hopes of showing the sun shined for 24 hours and ending the flat-Earth conspiracy theory.