New World Map That Accurately Shows Earth in 2D Created by Scientists. Published Sep 03, 2018 at 11:50 AM EDT Updated Sep 03, 2018 at 1:09 PM EDT. The Equal Earth projection.

Researchers have taken a major step toward the exploration of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, by producing the first global map of the world’s icy plains, twisted canyons, and crinkled shorelines.

Researchers from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, have put together the clearest ever global view of Earth at night, as seen from satellites in space.

Most people today use Google Maps to find local schools, malls, and the closest Starbucks, according to this year’s Google Zeitgeist, which catalogs the top searches of 2011. But there was more ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

Where Are the World’s Rare Earth Mineral Deposits? A new global map, based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data, pinpoints the richest rare earth mineral reserves on the planet.

Flooded Earth: How the global map and countries' coastlines will change by 2100 as higher temperatures cause sea levels to rise, flooding cities such as London and New York.

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

In 2007, two years after Google Earth was launched, it partnered with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to map the Darfur genocide in real time. This was the sort of thing Gore had in mind for his ...

A first-of-its-kind global map shows forest canopy height By using a satellite that fires the Earth with laser pulses from space, a researcher in the US has created the first global map of forest ...