The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface can substantially vary over decades, ...

However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe ... A globe always offers a more accurate model of the Earth’s surface than a flat map because it is 3D.

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...

Air pollution has a "dramatic" impact on the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, reveals new research. Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the ... Instead, scientists map the interior by watching ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other ... and it's the only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface. Earth is also unique in terms of monikers. Every other solar ...

They have to compromise. Map makers use map projections to transform the Earth onto a flat surface. One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have ...