Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

The first successful circumnavigation of the Earth, begun by Ferdinand Magellan and completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano, ...

Once upon a time, Los Angeles was a walking city. Vestiges remain in its hidden stairs. Here are three beautiful walks up the Hollywood Hills, along the Santa Monica coast and through Echo Park ...

Tucked away in Northern California’s coastal wilderness lies a place so magical it seems plucked from a fantasy novel – a narrow gorge where sheer walls rise 50 feet skyward, completely draped in ...

The group Nautilus Live recently returned from a 21-day expedition surveying and mapping the ocean floor around the Solomon ...

A massive 8.8 earthquake rocked the upper Pacific Ocean Tuesday evening, triggering tsunami warnings for the entire state of ...

The tsunami advisory for Washington has been revised to include only the outer coastlines of Clallam, Jefferson, Grays Harbor ...

Tsunami waves have begun reaching the coast of Hawaii after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Russia ’s far east during the early hours of Wednesday, causing devastation and triggering mass ...

To catch these “dark vessels,” the team turned to synthetic aperture radar, or SAR. This is a satellite technology that sends ...

The sixth-strongest earthquake ever recorded triggered large and potentially dangerous waves around the world.

The woman refused to accept the watery grave and never gave up her fight for survival despite being beaten, strangled, nearly ...

Could it be that our Paleolithic forebears were more than artists and hunters, that they were also the world’s earliest ...