An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth’s land surface is being created with ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution ...

Google Maps and Earth have revolutionized how we see the world. Google Maps navigates unknown cities in real time, and Google Earth operates on a larger scale. Google Earth takes us on an immersive ...

Creating an accurate map of Earth is quite a difficult task, but in 1999 a Japanese architect claimed to achieve what was thought to be impossible. The Japanese architect is named Hajime Narukawa, and ...

A study published in Nature found some regions on Earth experience peak spring at unexpected times. Researchers found ...

A map depicting a flat Earth surrounded by rings of ice walls from an online art forum is being taken by some social media users as evidence the planet is flat. The illustration depicts the continents ...