nuclear reactors show up as dark red "hotspots" of antineutrino activity. On the map the Himalayas appear hot. The Earth’s crust beneath those highest mountain peaks, it turns out, is rich in ...

The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan Sebastián Elcano, stands as one of history’s greatest maritime achievements.

While Maps is more for getting around places, Google Earth is more focused on letting people discover the Blue Planet. And that happens to include that blue marble's place in the cosmos ...

It’s stuffin.space, a real-time, 3D-visualized map of all objects looping around Earth, from satellites to orbital trash. The site updates itself daily using the latest satellite data from Space ...

As part of recent research, we worked with a team of international collaborators to build a computer model to show just how much ... our GPlates software. Map of the Earth’s rigid plates with ...

The picture above is not actually a map of the topography * (height variation) of the Indian Ocean seafloor, as much as it looks like it. It’s actually a map of the change in the Earth’s ...

Earth is a lumpy, squishy place - or so the newest, best-ever gravity map of the planet has revealed. A flying pair of American and German satellites, known as GRACE, has measured the uneven ...

A digital map of the Earth goes back 750 million years through the extinction of the dinosaurs. Users can enter a city name to see what it looked like several centuries ago. Ian Webster ...

Peeling back each of Earth's layers reveals a lot about our planet's formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's ...