Getting inadequate sleep over a prolonged period of time can increase a person's risk of chronic health problems.

Skywatchers in America, get ready. A strong solar storm is heading towards Earth. This may cause spectacular northern lights.

The judge ruled that Republican lawmakers illegally drew a map that gave their party all of the state’s congressional seats.

A heat advisory in Alaska warned of temperatures around 80 degrees on Friday, putting some people at risk of heat-related illness.

Scientists say a warning system could have given people on the Alaska Peninsula 10 seconds or more to brace themselves for July's M7.3 earthquake.

The battle between Texas Republicans and California Democrats has led politicians in other states to consider ways they, too, ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections, delivering a win for President Donald Trump ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ...

The SnowEx23 GIS References and Field Maps, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set contains ...

Following Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's meeting in Alaska on August 15, 2025, a video from Chile circulated online alongside false claims it shows US fighter jets drawing a star to honour the ...

For centuries, the Mercator map shrank Africa and India while inflating Europe and Greenland.