First whole-Earth map fills a 500-million year gap in Earth’s history. A GAP of 500 million years in our understanding of Earth’s history has been solved.

Along with our colleagues, we have published the first whole-Earth plate tectonic map of half-a-billion years of Earth history, from 1,000 million years ago to 520 million years ago.

But there was around a 500-million-year gap that a group of 12 researchers in Australia and Canada just filled in with their new map, which they describe as the “first whole-Earth plate tectonic ...

New Nighttime Map Shows Earth in Whole New Light. Comparing satellite data from 2012 and 2016 reveals where the planet has dimmed and brightened. By Betsy Mason. April 29, 2017 ...

The Earth is round. Now it looks that way on Google Maps. A WHOLE NEW WORLD. Google Maps now offers a refreshing new angle of Earth. That is: a more accurate one.

Humans have managed to put a whole bunch of stuff in orbit around the Earth, and keeping track of it all is a serious endeavor. Visualizing the sheer number of objects we’ve managed to send into ...