A gigantic hole has opened up in the Sun's atmosphere and is currently big enough to spot from Earth. The structure located ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Google Earth allows you to measure the distance between two points on the Earth, as well as the circumference of a circular section of the ground - or even the elevation of a mountain. 2.

It orbits Earth every 95 minutes, travelling at a speed of 17,000 mph (or just over 27,000 km/h). Universe: the universe is everything. It is everything we can touch, feel, sense, measure or detect.

When British army officer Sir Andrew Scott Waugh and his team were measuring Mount Everest as part of the Great Trigonometric Survey, for example, Earth’s atmosphere interfered. Light can bend ...