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

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

High quality 3d animation. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Earth 02 Sun rise around the Equator The sun rises over the Equator, with the lights across the countries going out as dawn grows.

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

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while ...

There it is, the Equator. It marks the difference between ... After watching the film, teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the ...

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 ...

The researchers conclude that powerful jetstream winds around the equator would explain this unexpected result. Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the poles are cooler ...

The Equator Prize recognizes nature-based solutions led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities that promote sustainable development and ecological resilience. As we gear up for the next United ...

The temperature swing is a 180-switch from the nearly 10 inches of snow that fell in a day in north Florida in late January, ...