The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

With the US joining Israel in strikes on Iran, we take a look at where you might want to head if the conflict escalates.

The maps were produced from composited image swath data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over Antarctica for the 2003-2004 austral summer season..

High above the windswept Ross Ice Shelf, a helium balloon the size of a football stadium drifts in the polar twilight. Slung ...

The archipelago may not hold major strategic weight in the Indo-Pacific, but it offers a fascinating case study of ...

Scientists previously estimated that the total emperor penguin population declined about 10% across all of Antarctica over ...

We used Sentinel-2 imagery time series to generate a vegetation map for the Northern part of the Antarctica Peninsula and offshore islands, including the South Shetlands. The vegetation cover was ...

The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released June 10.

From the financial powerhouse of the Cayman Islands to the windswept wildlife sanctuary of South Georgia, you might have ...

The estimated population of 16 penguin colonies — visible in satellite photos taken between 2009 and 2024 — declined 22% ...

The TAAF’s recent integration as a component of France’s Indo-Pacific strategy marks a new chapter in the atypical ...