Big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, ontologies, and knowledge graphs have all made it possible for numerous new trends, technologies, and approaches in Geoinformatics ...

Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...

Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005.

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth?. It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way ...