A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

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Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

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A Falcon 9 rocket topped with an ocean-observing satellite launched into space Sunday night from California's central coast.

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...

The earliest evidence of an internal 'GPS' system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how modern birds and fish ...

A billion-dollar international mission to extend humanity’s most precise ocean measurements is about to ride a column of fire ...

The photo shaped the world's perception of the existential threat climate change poses to low-lying island nations.