NASA model reveals Earth is actually shaped like a potato

For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...

NASA’s gravity maps show Earth’s gravity is uneven, with some anomalies linked to deep structures inside the planet rather than the surface we see

NASA's GRACE satellites mapped subtle variations in Earth's gravity field. These gravity anomalies originate from dense and ...
Popular Mechanics

Feast Your Eyes on "Equal Earth," the New and More Accurate World Map

When the Boston Public School District recently decided to change what type of map it used, that move inspired a group of scientists to develop a brand new type of world map. They claim it is the most ...
SciManDan on MSNOpinion

The internet has proposed dozens of flat Earth maps, none of them actually work

A simple question about world maps becomes the centerpiece of a deeper examination into one of the internet's most ...
Phys.org

Sharpest ever global Earth map

The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth's land surface is being created with ESA's Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution ...
Ensia

This interactive map shows how diverse life on Earth is — and how we can keep it that way

September 10, 2019 — The astronomer Carl Sagan famously referred to Earth as a “pale blue dot” against the dark backdrop of space. Our planet is blue, yes, but also green — teeming with life, from ...