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

Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

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

Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...

For the first time, researchers have found oceans help cool global temperatures more than anyone previously thought. Here's ...

President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” repeating an idea he first brought up earlier this month during a news ...

Currently approaching the equator, Giancarlo Pedote, the skipper of Prysmian competing in the Vendée Globe, is preparing to ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean ...

USGS researchers have unveiled the first map of prospective locations for hydrogen gas in the contiguous United States — and ...

According to the NWS, the Arctic polar vortex is a powerful band of west-to-east winds that develops in the stratosphere, about 10 to 30 miles above the North Pole, during the winter season. It is ...

A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions Americans. See maps of ...

A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia is bringing a cold front with frigid temperatures to millions Americans. See maps of ...