In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is ...

The Parker Solar Probe is attempting to fly into the sun’s outer atmosphere on a mission to help scientists learn more about ...

Such schemes would be easier to add to than to counteract, so the level of modification the world would see would probably be the level chosen by the country with the greatest appetite for such ...

The Floating Earth is a 10m (33ft) wide model of the globe and is now on display at Queen’s Valley. It's made up of NASA images of the earth taken from space and has been created by artist Luke ...

Globe-trotting: Earth bids adieu to temporary ‘mini moon’ Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” for the past two months.