On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently launched the Biomass satellite into orbit from Kourou in French Guiana using a Vega-C rocket.Over the coming ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

During July, magnitude 5.8 Uranus can be spotted as a blue-green speck in binoculars and as a small 3.5 arc-seconds-wide disk ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have gained unique insight into the mechanisms behind the collapse of Antarctic ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Here, the new satellite reveals stunning variety within the tropical forest landscape. Green hues indicate forested areas; ...

The question "How many continents are there on Earth?" might seem simple, but when you delve into it, the answer becomes much more complex. While most people around the world are taught that there are ...