From 1991 to 2001, the violent breakup of Yugoslavia reshaped the Balkans through a series of brutal wars. Using Google Earth, this video maps the conflict step by step: the secession of Slovenia, the ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

The world is a big place. There is plenty to see on our planet: cities, mountains, and a lot of countries that can be tricky ...

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

At first glance, it’s just an old atlas — pages yellowed, corners torn, and a cover barely holding together. But inside, the world looks nothing like it does today. The Soviet Union stretches across ...

A new theory says personal change is like geographical exploration. Just as maps expand when new lands are discovered, our ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded Afghanistan to fight Al ...

For 17 million or so visually impaired people in China, the beauty of the nation's cultural relics and landscapes has long been out of reach. But that's beginning to change. On Monday, ahead of White ...

Many marine species are no strangers to the depths of the oceans. Some animals, like certain sharks, tuna, or turtles, routinely perform extreme dives, whereas for other species, such behavior has ...