The Supreme Court has given the Texas GOP a gerrymandering victory—just one week after the Democratic gerrymandering victory ...

America was named by mapmaker Waldseemüller in 1507. The name honored explorer Amerigo Vespucci's discoveries. “America” was ...

New global modeling shows that about 9.3% of the world's land area is highly vulnerable to the risk of dangerous disease ...

For observers on Earth, the sun appears as a bright, familiar disk—but what we see is only half the story. Like the moon, one ...

Wittenoom was once a booming asbestos mining town in Australia where families lived surrounded by toxic blue asbestos dust. Over time, exposure led to widespread illness, with more than 2000 deaths ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, and will continue observations into 2028 ...

The team successfully built the largest, highest-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed. The completed map charts ...

The equator is more than just a line — it’s the engine that drives weather and climate patterns all across the globe.

A research team with scientists from MARUM—Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen studied the ...

The Holcomb collection of rare Texas maps, dating to 1513, will be preserved and displayed by the Texas General Land Office.

Announced at the end of March, the “Atlas for the Americas Flyways” website tracks high concentrations of migratory bird ...

Two Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 are locked in permanent day and night, with heat differences suggesting they are ...