Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

More than a decade after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with 239 people on board, Malaysia has approved a new ...

Warmer air makes glaciers speed up more and reach peak speed earlier each year, showing temperature strongly controls how ice moves.

Jewish National Fund says that combined with field surveys every 5 years, new tool can shorten data-collection times and improve accuracy ...

Landslides and flooding across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand have killed more than 1,200 people in the past week, and 800 ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

Reports of executions allegedly committed by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following their capture of El-Fasher have sparked international outrage. But a widely shared Google Earth image ...

Research maps nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves. Millions of Americans would meet WHO air quality limits by switching to electric cooking.

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...

Illustration: Xihe sun exploration satellite "With the help of the Xihe satellite, we can obtain full-disk solar spectra at more than 300 wavelength points simultaneously every 46 ...