See the 2,500 mile-long (4000 km) Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: NASA/MSSS ...

The world's biggest iceberg is on the loose and is threatening to collide with a tiny south Atlantic island, potentially affecting the wildlife there, scientists warned this week. Known as A23a ...

In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” the Atlantic Ocean’s main current system is disrupted and sets off a chain of disastrous events from monster storms to an Ice Age across the northern ...

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes late. But within 23 minutes of takeoff, it was careening over the ...

Now, it appears that it is moving with the prevailing current toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. “It is presently in a meander of the current and ...

The world's largest iceberg — which is roughly the size of Rhode Island — is fast approaching a remote British Island and wildlife haven in the South Atlantic. As of Jan. 16, the megaberg ...

The configuration of the mosque, the worshipping place for Muslims, traces its history to the courtyard of the religion's founder. The first mosques were, therefore, simple open spaces marked for ...

Accurate hyperparameters are important prerequisites for inversion of fine Moho topography. However, limited by the nonlinear terms, the hyperparameters estimated by previous methods have obvious ...

Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), a relatively warm and salty water with origins in the subpolar North Atlantic, upwells around the Antarctic ... sensitive to changes in model resolution (including ...

Caitlin Flanagan is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the author of Girl Land and To Hell With All That. Caitlin Flanagan began her magazine-writing career, in 2001, with a series of extended ...