I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a ...

Subscribers can see a larger version of this map at the bottom of the page ... we can use astronomy to grasp Earth’s physical location. Earth orbits the sun at a distance of 150 million ...

The floor of the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most geologically interesting stretches of the Earth’s surface ... than ever before by a new 1.4 billion-pixel map. This striking view of the ...

Creating 2-D maps of the entire Earth is a ... World Map: The Authograph World Map: looks weird, but all proportions are very close to correct and it fits in a neat 4:3 rectangle Clearly, nobody ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Scientists think that by 4.3 billion years ago, Earth may have developed conditions suitable to support life. The oldest known fossils, however, are only 3.7 ...

Debris from the impact between Earth and the protoplanet eventually formed the moon. The newborn Earth was struck by a Mars-size rock that helped create the moon, and the impact may have left ...

NuView plans to launch a network of twenty satellites with proprietary LiDAR payloads to map the Earth annually ... A prototype proof of concept satellite (”Mr. Spoc”) is under construction ...

Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished together by gravity. That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system, including our star, the sun.