The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, and will continue observations into 2028 ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried ...

SPHEREx detects massive deposits of frozen CO2 in star-forming regions and reveals new insights into planet formation.

On the occasion – this week – of both the 78 th annual Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) and the signing of the Isaac ...

This video examines National Geographic’s newest atlases and how they update our understanding of the world map. It ...

This video explains the difference between exonyms and endonyms—why countries of the world are called different names depending on language and culture. It explores how names like Germany, Deutschland ...

In the 19th century, the geographer and explorer David Livingstone was scathing of what he described as ‘easy chair ...

As entire neighbourhoods are flattened in southern Lebanon, the border town of Naqoura becomes the latest place where history ...

When commenting on the 1980–1988 Iraq–Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was “a pity both sides can’t lose”. It ...

Apple Maps faces criticism over its satellite software displaying vast blank areas across Lebanon and missing most Lebanese ...

Even with a U.S. blockage, geography gives Iran an edge in the Strait of Hormuz, shaping control of a vital global chokepoint ...

Great powers have long sought to control the Strait of Hormuz. Following the expulsion of the Portuguese in the early 17th ...