The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

Did you know that a hurricane or tropical storm has never crossed the equator? The reason behind this fascinating phenomenon lies in a meteorological principle related to the rotation of the Earth: ...

Laririt reiterated the need for “bold steps” toward the development of the national blue carbon road map. “It must be one ...

The International Day of the Tropics, observed on June 29 annually, focuses on the significance of the tropics as hubs of the ...

Europe has reached a major milestone with the successful launch of Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) - a move ...

A European space agency created the first "artificial total solar eclipse" using a pair of satellites on Monday.

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...