Though it has some of the world's most significant reserves, Latin America has not emerged as a key player in the rare earth ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

NASA has launched a $488m infra-red mission to map the distribution of galaxies and study cosmic inflation. The ...

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

Except in the crust, the interior of the Earth cannot be studied by drilling holes to take samples. Instead, scientists map the interior by watching how seismic waves from earthquakes are bent ...