Google Maps started as a project called Where 2 in 2004 by a Sydney-based team and quickly evolved into the beloved ...

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in Ethiopia on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The ...

The world feels a bit topsy-turvy at the moment, well more than usual anyway, so why not see a world that's actually been ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...

Among a host of popular tourist areas proposed to be photographed through the Street View Project are Downtown Nassau and Montagu Beach in Nassau; Port Lucaya Marketplace and Peterson Cay National ...

Then artificial intelligence—combined with satellite images—lent a hand. Last year, journalists with the environmental-news nonprofit Mongabay used a free AI tool, called Earth Index, to analyze ...

Deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest, drug traffickers have been building illegal airstrips on protected and indigenous lands. Finding these hidden strips across millions of acres of dense jungle ...

New results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which returned pieces of an asteroid to Earth 16 months ago ... laser scanner allowed scientists to map the tiny asteroid in three dimensions ...

Sam Goodchild has been working incredibly hard to fix his mainsail in the Vendée Globe as the leaders on the water approach Cape Finisterre. We get an update from him, together with glue and patches, ...

Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited due to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Scientists have identified mysterious formations deep ...

World leaders on Monday congratulated Donald Trump on his return to the White House following his inauguration. The 47th president of the United States was sworn in earlier at a ceremony that took ...

Some odd ancient earth rings in Australia that could be over a thousand years old have had their origins revealed. The bizarre rings were found on the outskirts of what is now Melbourne ...