Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to get your nerd on. Know what today is? It's Pi Day. What's that you say? Why, it's March ...

The circumference (distance around the largest part of the Earth) is roughly 24,898 miles (40,070 kilometers), according to NASA. (This area is also called the equator.) If you estimate that a day ...

Total eclipse starts at 1:26 a.m. and lasts until 2:31 a.m. During totality the moon glows red-orange from sunlight bent by the atmosphere around Earth’s circumference and into the shadow.

While Pi Day is mainly celebrated by those interested in mathematics, it has also become a fun day for people to enjoy discounts on real pies such as dessert pies, pizza pies, and other round-shaped ...

Seven of Saturn's moons are so bright that they are visible from Earth through a telescope ... high mountains stretch along the moon's equator. Dione is a heavily cratered moon with a dense ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist In case you forgot, Pi Day is Friday, March 14 — a celebration of one of the most important numbers in our universe: 3.14159.  Pi is the ratio ...

The new definition broadens the meaning of obesity to take into account a number of physical parameters such as height, weight, and waist circumference ... the Moon’s equator on the nearside, the side ...