With a 5-mile (8 kilometers) resolution and 21-day path covering most of the planet, just one year of data from SWOT gives a clearer picture of the ocean floor than 30 years of data collectively ...

T he results of the planet’s first annual physical—a complete health check—are in, and they are alarming. We are deep into the yellow danger zone and moving rapidly towards the red high-risk ...

NASA shared striking views of nearly all of Earth's water in new maps of the planet's global sea levels. Comments (0) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In 2019, the GLOBE Land Cover project began asking volunteers to help map planet Earth by taking photos of their surroundings facing multiple directions, including north, south, east and west. Now ...

Each up to 559 miles tall and thousands of miles wide—and together covering some 25 percent of the surface of our planet's core— Earth's LLVPs were first discovered in the 1980s, when ...