While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films and TV shows are closer than you might imagine. The first book in J R R ...

The United States has one of its six West Coast-based aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific Ocean again ...

New research suggests that soil erosion is making floods more deadly in desert areas and warns against the rising risks to ...

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon’s ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

By Carl Zimmer and Graham Dickie New Look at Landslide Potential Shows 44% of U.S. Is at Risk Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not ...

When World War I ended in 1918, the winners, principally Britain and France (for the US electorate had decisively rejected ...

The region was considered to be Earth's eighth continent before the majority of it got lost under the sea. Over 300 years ...