Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

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Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...

Part 3 of the Evolution of Kempton Park series shows more stark differences in Google Maps images from 2009/2010 and the most ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

This is where we are right now. Today, they dig deeper, to help us see new layers of a problem and start to solve it.

After making U.S. history as only the second person to be elected to a nonconsecutive term as president, Donald Trump had ...

Thanks to a new study proves that Earth's inner core since 2010 has been rotating more slowly than usual. This intriguing ...

In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.

The United States has attempted to purchase Greenland from Denmark several times, including in 1867, the year Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase from the Russian ...