Shark and ray populations are struggling across the world due to overfishing and other threats. A new report delineates 816 areas of the ocean that should be protected to help them recover. The report ...

A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

President Trump has not authorized military action in Iran, but the U.S. has built up its presence in the region in recent days.

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static—a massive, still abyss far removed ...

The astronauts in the International Space Station experience sunsets every day. One of the latest photos of sunset is a space photograph taken by an astronaut. Space is no less impressive standing on ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope was used to create the largest, highest resolution map of dark matter, just ...

The surface of our world has been in a constant state of flux for millions of years. Continents have wandered, oceans have ...

Today’s maps lie — because for most of human history, the world looked nothing like this. During the last Ice Age, ice sheets ...

Looking at a world map feels simple. Each country seems to sit neatly on one continent. But geography loves surprises. Some countries stretch across t.

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...