Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps.The GPS systems in our ...

Voters voted for it, even if they weren’t sure what it was. But maps are the ideal metaphor for our models of what the world ...

Instagram announced on Monday that it’s updating its Map feature to make it easier to see whether you’re sharing your location. The social network also announced that it’s launching the Snap Map-like ...

Guidance on traveling and travel restrictions varies across the United States as the country faces new surges in Covid-19 cases. The patchwork of restrictions between regions highlights the ability of ...

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator running ...

I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat ...