It's certainly not a small island: It's about three times the size of Texas. But on most maps, Greenland looks almost as big ...

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of ...

As shown in the map below, created using the most ... The Steenkampskraal rare-earth mine in South Africa, one of the world's highest-grade deposits of rare-earth minerals, including thorium ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.