In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high hopes to strike gold, silver, and copper. By the 1930s, though, most of the ...

The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just a byproduct of the tectonic plates beneath our feet.

Russian Luch “inspector” satellites are suspected of shadowing European GEO spacecraft, raising fears of interception, ...

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

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A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

We asked satellite experts to fill us in on what's flying around above us and the challenges SpaceX faces as its ...

The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, grasslands and wetlands surrounding a winding river in Bolivia.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence ...

Officials have urged residents to treat the outages, intended to prevent attacks by Ukrainian drones, as an opportunity for a ...

When you check the weather on your phone or use navigation to find a new restaurant, you probably don't think about the satellites humming overhead that make it all possible. Yet these orbiting ...

As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...