It's possible to measure the distance on Google Earth between two or more points. Here's how to do it.

Open earth.google.com. Go to Tools > Measurement. Click on the starting point. Hover your mouse and click on the endpoint. Head to the Measure pop-up box. To learn more about these steps, continue ...

WASHINGTON – Just as a sponge expands when absorbing water, so too does the Earth bulge slightly where aquifers, underground areas of permeable materials, absorb unusually large amounts of water from ...

Next year, a radar reflector about as wide as a black spruce tree is tall will direct its gaze toward Earth’s forests 410 miles below. The European Space Agency’s Biomass mission will send a 39-foot ...

The European Space Agency’s Biomass mission includes worldwide involvement. The mission plans to quantify changes to global forests over time to advance knowledge of carbon cycles. A P-band synthetic ...

The magnetic shifts can affect navigation systems used by airplanes, ships and even your mobile phone. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

New satellite data show Earth’s magnetic field changing fast, with a growing weak spot over the South Atlantic.

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite has reached an extraordinary milestone—2 trillion laser pulses fired from orbit. Since its launch ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Researchers at Oregon State University have completed a mammoth project to create a 3-D map of electromagnetic energy in the Earth's crust across the continental U.S. What began as ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere. This extraordinary environment is basically the sun's sphere of influence. It ...