Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie's return to Earth has been postponed over concerns that their ...

You can ask Google to blur your home in Street View so strangers can’t zoom in on your doors, windows, cars, or kids’ play ...

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated the Columbian Exchange, a vast transfer of plants, animals, and diseases ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

Scouring the corners of Google Earth and Maps has become an interesting way for people to explore the planet, and sometimes they come across the most unexpected finds. From random snapshots of humans ...

Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps. The GPS systems in our ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of the magnetic field stretching from South America to western Africa. Wherever the ...

South Korea is nearing a decision on whether to allow Google and Apple to export high-resolution geographic map data to servers outside the country. The detailed maps, which use a 1:5,000 scale, would ...

Divers working off Adrasan in Antalya, Turkey, located a shipwreck resting about 120 to 150 feet (35 to 45 meters) below the surface. It was a cargo carrier and its hold was packed with ceramic plates ...