A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The Earth Mapping Resources Initiative, or Earth MRI, is a federal program developed by the U.S. Geological Survey that aims to identify and map the country’s underground deposits of critical minerals ...

The vernal equinox signals the astronomical start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with the sun crossing above Earth's equator ... first day of autumn. The word equinox is derived from ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

There are occasions when we hear (quite often actually) that we in SA are ‘the worst in the world’ and this or that. There are 235 countries in the world, does that mean we come 235 th? or near the ...

The pontiff writes from the Gemelli Polyclinic to the editor of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. In illness, ‘war appears even more absurd,’ he reiterates. Human frailty ‘has the power ...

Every six months, the equinox splits Earth's day almost in half. Here's how it happens—and why people have celebrated it since ancient times. A flock of swans fly at sunrise on the first day of ...

A mysterious object in a remote mountainous area of New Mexico has piqued the curiosity of eagle-eyed Google Maps users. Located at coordinates 34°24'21.6"N 107°05'44.5"W, the object is a large ...

Spring 2025 technically begins at 5:01 a.m. Eastern time that day as the sun moves directly over the Earth’s equator ... all around the globe. The word equinox was formed by two Latin ...