The elevation of nearly every place on Earth is now available, thanks to a NASA satellite mission. By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the ...

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 ...

NASA shared striking views of nearly all of Earth's water in new maps of the planet's global sea levels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

NASA's 20-year time-lapse shows how Earth is changing 02:44. Our most complete picture of life on Earth is coming into focus, as a stunning new NASA time-lapse video crams 20 years into just a few ...

Image: Google/NASA. Google's earth maps are also now less dependent on Landsat 7, which was hit by a hardware failure in 2013 that left stripes running through many of its images.

Let’s be clear: The map to Earth that NASA sent into space aboard the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft is not dangerous. It certainly hasn’t “made it a lot easier for aliens to attack Earth ...

PASADENA, Calif. – A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth’s forests. The map will help scientists better understand the role forests… ...

NASA has just the map for that question — and it happens to look like beautiful, psychedelic art. On July 4, a 6.4 magnitude quake hit the town of Ridgecrest, north of Los Angeles.