An autonomous ocean robot, launched from Woods Hole, is attempting to complete a first-ever trip around the world.

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

The world is a big place. There is plenty to see on our planet: cities, mountains, and a lot of countries that can be tricky ...

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress’s specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded Afghanistan to fight Al ...

Donald Trump may be president, but that doesn’t mean you want him as the navigator on a road trip. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images That’s because the president made a claim about the Middle East on ...

On November 20, 1959, at a pier in Brooklyn, the writer Peter Matthiessen boarded the M.V. Venimos, a freighter bound for Iquitos, a port town deep in the Peruvian Amazon. He was fresh off the ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippine Sea on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 9:43 a.m. Philippine time about 12 miles east of ...