Officers helped a resident get rid of a huge alligator that had entered their backyard in Key Largo, Florida, last Friday (Feb 7). Video shows Sgt. James Hager using a broom to shoo the large reptile ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

To celebrate 20 years of mapping the world [and South Africa], we’ve highlighted a selection of places that sparked ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth.

Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world. Google Maps was born and ...

African countries are working together to create larger markets and benefit from economies of scale. In the energy sector, ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant chance of impacting planet Earth in 7 years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

A huge cloud of Saharan dust has swept across Europe in the last few days, already hitting Italy and continuing to spread ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal ...