Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help protect and enforce its ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Meta's Project Waterworth will stretch over 50,000 kilometers long, connecting the U.S. with India, Brazil, and South Africa.

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

Civilization 7’s maps are so badly designed that it’s actually funny. I’ve had multiple maps that feel weirdly similar, and ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

Despite making up more than 70% of the Earth's surface, seas and oceans are largely unknown to science. It is estimated that we do not know even half of what happens in the aquatic environment of ...

Searching for life in extraterrestrial oceans, like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, may be more challenging than scientists thought. A new study shows that Enceladus' ocean forms distinct layers that prevent ...

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth has seven continents, but emerging research suggests that the number might ...

Geologists have long viewed North America and Europe as separate continents, yet new studies suggest there might be more complexity beneath the surface of Earth’s oceans. Ongoing research has revealed ...