The Babylonian map consists of a circular map. Along with that, there are a few pieces of text written in an an ...

It took feats of engineering and deft piloting to map the planet’s topography, an achievement that continues to pay dividends ...

A century ago next Sunday, Chicagoans’ necks craned skyward looking for a single-engine Douglas World Cruiser bearing their ...

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in ... of their map image,” says ...

Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR's Circle Round adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 3-103.

Female-fronted, multicultural band Circle The Earth, who stretch the boundaries of rock with funk swagger, jazz fluidity, and pop universality, has released the official music video for their newest ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

The model predicted that the mass of water would have moved back and forth every 90 seconds, matching the recordings of vibrations travelling through the Earth’s crust all around the globe.

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has travelled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX’s capsule ...