Earth’s center of gravity can be located ... These tiny changes in the distance between the two satellites allow us to map out the density of the ground below, but it's fundamentally a measure ...

Languages; English. Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far ...

The online map, designed by Ian Webster, features a range of tools that also make it easy to discover more about the Earth, such as where the first reptiles lived or when the first flower bloomed.

and the Earth looked very different from one 100-million-year stint to the next. Now, a new interactive map can actually show you were your town or city was, relatively speaking, as far back as ...

As the BBC’s Jonathan Amos reports, a new map does just that. It was generated using data from the European Space Agency's Swarm mission, which is dedicated to studying Earth’s magnetic ...

On the cover of the record, a series of diagrams was emblazoned, including one very important one: a map of Earth's location in the galaxy. Although the method used to locate Earth was very clever ...

Obviously Britain wasn't Britain when dinosaurs walked the Earth, but where exactly was your home at the time of T.Rex, Stegosaurus and Diplodocus? Well, an interactive map lets you travel back ...

Though he never actually crossed it, the Greek mathematician Pythagoras is sometimes credited with having first conceived of the Equator, calculating its location on the Earth’s sphere more than ...

rare earth minerals are relatively abundant the world over, but not often found in concentrated deposits. This makes extraction and refinement a complex and costly process. The map above ...