Scattered across the United States, hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines scar the earth, posing a safety hazard to ...

The only way to accurately represent a round Earth on a flat piece of paper ... up the paper at the top and bottom. The map problem is that in reverse - to get the middle of the globe to fit ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

There's a total lunar eclipse on Thursday night that should be visible across the US - here's how to watch it.

Paleogeographic reconstructions—essentially ancient “maps of the past”—further illustrated how ... The post Does the Amazon River Flow Backward? The Remarkable Reversal of Earth’s Largest River ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Dark energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories. The universe is expanding, ...

To my fellow Americans who moved South because you didn’t like winter: reality is coming. The cold chilled your bones, I get ...

But no, there is not a path of totality for the total lunar eclipse (unlike last year's total solar eclipse) because the Earth's shadow is large enough to cover all of the moon (not so in reverse).

It's a bird; it's a plane!! It's a ... cloud?! No, it's a massive, once-military-grade hover-capable blimp designed to ...

Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, was the lead author of the 2008 paper that formally introduced the idea of tipping points in the Earth’s ...