Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Indian Ocean Geoid Low spans 1.2 million square miles where a deep gravity anomaly causes the sea surface to sink by as much ...

For decades, a vast region south of India has quietly refused to make sense. Satellites mapping Earth’s shape kept returning ...

No audio available for this content. My April column addressed the vertical movement at the NOAA CORS Network (NCN). The values at the sites indicate the potential movement of marks in the area of the ...

No audio available for this content. As high-precision GNSS horizontal and vertical data becomes less expensive to collect, greater attention must be paid when reconciling vertical datasets. In 2013, ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. There is a “gravity hole” in the Indian ...

For years, researchers have tried to pinpoint how an area deep in the Indian Ocean with lower gravitational pull came to be. A team in India may have figured it out. The area in question is called the ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. The best-fitting model (Fig. 2a) was found by a systematic parameter search (Supplementary Figs 1–5). The eastern hemisphere geoid ...

Take a clay model of Earth and squish it with your fingers, and the result may look similar to the geoid — the latest and best-ever map of our planet's gravitational field. The latest Earth gravity ...

The Indian Ocean looks flat from above, but one part of it sits far lower than it should. South of India, the sea surface ...