Study Suggests Earth Has Only Six Continents and Not Seven; 'The North American and European Plates Have Not Officially Broken Up' Examinations of a strip of land stretching from Greenland through ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

Donald Trump wants the United States to buy Greenland for its strategically vital resources, to bolster US security and give China a bloody nose. But he also wants to strike his largest ever real ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It's a precursor to ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to ...

A PLANET nestled more than 500 light-years away from Earth is home to the fastest known winds. Barrelling through space at 20,000mph, the “supersonic” gales would be fierce enough to ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially ...

Scientists found winds on WASP-127b moving at 33,000 km/h. These are the fastest jetstream winds ever recorded on any planet ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...