NASA, preparing to establish a permanent presence on the moon, has detected deposits of water ice on the moon "more extensive ...

At 74º latitude, Devon Island is nearly 5,000 miles north of Hawaii—and more than five times the size. Remote, windswept, and ...

Our Earth’s circle of latitude passes through 11 countries ... and exposes the arbitrariness of our world map. Despite the north nearly always being shown at the top of the world, there is nothing ...

Climatologists believe we could be less than 20 years away from a tipping point that could fundamentally change everything we ...

Free stargazing evenings will fill visitors with wonder and the chance to learn about one of the region’s greatest scientists ...

This ancient piece of cartography provides invaluable insight into how our ancestors viewed their world. In a significant development in the field of cartography, Ptolemy was the first to apply ...

Mount Adams, the long-dormant volcano in Southwest Washington, recently experienced some unusual seismic activity.

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Antarctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, clocking in at the second lowest in a record stretching back ...

PV Tech spoke with the company CEO, William Xie, about the latest product, DAH Solar's plans regarding the European market ...

Florida was bracing for the second of two back-to-back hurricanes Monday, with Hurricane Milton bearing down on the state after a devastating Hurric ...

The map projections used are either Cylindrical Equidistant (CE) or Lambert Conformal (LC). The Lambert Conformal projection takes three parameters; the central longitude (in degrees east of the ...