New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.
With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...
Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...
A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...
Scientists have recently unlocked the secrets of the world's oldest map, a 3,000-year-old clay tablet known as the Imago ...
All routes below lead to the Pavia Parking Garage on the Coral Gables Campus. If you park in Pavia, it’s an easy walk to the Office of Admissions Building. More information on parking can be found on ...
That's why topographical or terrain maps were invented ... If you need more precise elevation data, use Google Earth, which is available as an app and works in a web browser.
At the time, this was a new World War II technology developed ... the U.S. government didn’t allow topographic seafloor maps to be published for fear that Soviet submarines could use them.
Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Every day, 48.5 tons of meteoritic material hits Earth’s atmosphere. Almost all of it burns up during its descent, but the pieces that make it to the surface ...
The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...