The map above shows planet Earth’s reflectivity, or albedo, as the proportion of the sun’s energy that’s bounced back to space. Ice-covered regions are the most reflective, ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for exploring the cosmos.

By combining seismographic readings of roughly 3,000 quakes of magnitude 5.5 and greater the geologists can produce a three-dimensional model of the structures under the Earth's surface.

GOCE managed to map the gravitational strength of the Earth beneath it to a precision of 10 –5 m/s 2. While we commonly quote the gravitational force as 9.81 m/s 2 , this satellite was measuring ...

In 1893, Orlando Ferguson, a real estate developer based in South Dakota, drew a map of the Earth that combined biblical and scientific knowledge in a unique way. The map accompanied a 92-page ...

Born in 1601, Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the "last Renaissance Man" owing to his scholarly works in fields as diverse as biology, geology, ...

This small screengrab of a map of the Earth's winds circling the globe doesn't do justice to the big animated versions you can see here and here. The maps were created by Tokyo-based software ...

With careful analysis of the whale calls and their complicated echoes, the researchers were able to map the thickness of Earth’s crust in an earthquake-prone area known as the Blanco Fracture ...