Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

Solar eclipses are rare events which occur when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. They can turn a bright sunny day into ...

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

A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...

With TimeMap.org, you can do just that—no time machine required. This interactive history map lets you dive into the past, offering a unique way to see when, where, and how historical events ...

Historically, one of the best-documented global biodiversity patterns is the “latitudinal diversity gradient,” where species richness increases closer to the Equator ... app brought to you by Eric ...

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar system's orbital architecture may have evolved differently with the formation of a planet that is at least twice the size of Earth's mass—a ...

They are named after a Flemish cartographer who showed the spherical Earth as a flat rectangle ... size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada ...

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. Use the timeline ...

He put Southern California's dryness into perspective using charts and maps. In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that ...