The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently launched the Biomass satellite into orbit from Kourou in French Guiana using a Vega-C rocket.Over the coming ...

Imagine the world without Antarctica's ice sheets. If Antarctica were to melt entirely, it would trigger an unprecedented rise in sea levels, potentially flooding vast swaths of the Earth. Antarctica ...

ANTARTICA (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — Scientists are investigating "ghostly" signals detected below the Antarctic ice.

The maps were produced from composited image swath data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over Antarctica for the 2003-2004 austral summer season..

Photographer on Ice Moustache encrusted with ice, photographer Herbert Ponting stands on an iceberg near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in 1911. Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910 ...

People have rushed to social media to ask questions after spotting one unusual detail on a live FlightRadar plane tracker map ...

Sonar data reveal how krill fishing fleets overlap with penguins, seals, and whales—posing growing threats to Antarctic ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

Atlas Ocean Voyages honours military personnel throughout the globe by offering special savings of up to 20 percent for bookings.