NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

The bold question-askers at What If map out how a 40,000 km highway around the equator could revolutionize global travel.

Jurassic World Rebirth introduces a new island of dinos for all of us to be terrified of visiting. Here's how it fits within ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

When enlarged into a world map, though, Mercator becomes problematic ... but slightly stretches areas near the equator vertically, and areas near the poles horizontally. “There was also the fact that ...

When enlarged into a world map, though, Mercator becomes problematic, Braun said. The map’s mistakes were not likely to be a conspiracy against Africa or the Global South, but its continued use ...

Some of their cartographic maps went on to change the world —but other maps wound up stirring up quite a bit of drama. We take a look at a few of of history’s most controversial maps below.

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past. In a study released in the International Journal ...