Welcome to the Lore of Elden Ring through the lens of the world itself. In this episode we travel through the entire map to ...

Latin America and Oceania emerge as the most exposed regions, with many nations lacking detection and containment capacity, ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

A Mars-size object called Theia smashed into Earth, and the debris coalesced into the moon. Now scientists believe they may have identified pieces of Theia at the bottom of Earth’s mantle. A new study ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

There's something unsettling about looking at a flight map and noticing huge blank spaces where no planes seem to venture.

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Growing up in a remote area of Peru, chemical biologist and National Geographic Explorer Rosa Vásquez Espinoza relied on water as a mode of transportation. She and her family traversed the Amazon ...

New satellite records capture how polar ice sheets slide toward the sea, helping scientists better understand ice loss and ...

Nestled in the South Pacific Ocean, some 6,000 people live on the most isolated, inhabited island in the world: Rapa Nui.

It’s hard to imagine, but less than 200 years ago, Boston was surrounded by water. The city was basically an island, connected to the rest of the state only through a tiny spit of land. Neighborhoods ...