The National Hurricane Center's website and maps now reflect the official name (at least in the U.S.) of the Gulf of America.

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is looking at the possibility of setting up a launchpad in Mindanao, according to Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel ...

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

It’s a small world. It’s a wide world. Both phrases are used in lyrics, titles and more. A more accurate statement might be: Earth’s circumference (at the equator) is 24,901 ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

The Nairobi Animal Orphanage has been named the most reviewed visitor attraction site in Kenya.According to a report by Google Maps released as part of the celebrations to mark the navigation tool’s ...

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as soon as the U.S. government updated its official maps. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes ...

For the first time, a higher resolution map is also available, which offers more than 10 times more detail: it has a spatial resolution of about 300 km at the equator compared to the standard 3,300 km ...

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

This indicated that high-speed jet-stream winds were racing around the equator, rather than simply moving from the day side to the night ... However, thanks to powerful ground-based telescopes like ...