Researchers expected to find "a gradual increase in artificial light at night," but instead saw "much more nuanced patterns," ...

Maps can show more than just where things are—they can also show how things change. New maps of artificial light reveal a ...

About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5% of all Earth’s water. Water also exists in the air as water vapor, in rivers and lakes, in icecaps and glaciers, in ...

Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters.

See wild icons that define the American landscape and the Explorers urgently pursuing their protection.  California is home ...

The era of "capital without borders" appears to be fading, as more cross-border mergers and acquisitions run into resistance ...

Scientists discovered that language change follows hidden statistical patterns similar to the physics of magnets and soap bubbles.

The Government of Samoa and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are integrating Earth Observation and geospatial technologies into national agricultural data systems to ...

Rubin Observatory in the mountains of the Atacama Desert in Chile. Originally imagined in the mid-1990s as the Dark Matter ...

Scientists believe that a hidden layer of rock beneath Bermuda has kept the island elevated for millions of years (Picture: ) ...