"Our IFPA map of Antarctica’s subglacial landscape reveals that an enormous level of detail about the subglacial topography ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Given the current state of practice and visions for the future (including AI), certain practices should be reevaluated. This ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...