Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

Pigeons have long stunned scientists with their ability to cross unfamiliar landscapes and still find their way home, even ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

Changes are coming next year that could cause GPS-mapped field lines and boundaries to slightly shift — even though nothing ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...

The way Botrynema jellyfish is distributed across the ocean may reveal a previously unknown biogeographic barrier in the ...

The Uttarakhand Board of School Education (UBSE) has officially released the Class 11 Geography syllabus for the academic ...

Studies of exoplanets such as Wasp-18b are crucial to deepening understanding of space ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how modern birds and fish evolved the ability to use the Earth’s magnetic ...

A modern analysis of magnetic data collected over 50 years ago, but almost forgotten, reveals how the continent of Africa is stretching and splitting apart.

Broadly speaking, the farther you get from the equator, the colder the average temperatures are. It's a major reason why the North and South poles are some of the coldest places on Earth, while many ...