At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

Google says it will comply with President Trump's order to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," on Google ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

State of the World was previously State of Ukraine. You'll continue to hear Ukraine coverage here, along with other international stories. Support NPR's reporting by subscribing to State of the ...

Google Maps started as a project called Where 2 in 2004 by a Sydney-based team and quickly evolved into the beloved ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...

Enough talk about "historic sea levels" or "climate projections," today we're flooding the Earth with unrealistic amounts of water to see what we can new insights we can gain about our planet.