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

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Most of us grew up looking at world maps that dramatically distorted the actual size of countries, and we had no idea. In this eye-opening video, we reveal the truth about how big (or small) countries ...

A pioneering study reveals how archaeologists' satellite tools can be repurposed to tackle climate change. By using AI and satellite LiDAR imagery from NASA and ESA, researchers have found a faster, ...

but in 2024 settled on the Equal Earth map. “The World Bank Group is committed to ensuring accurate representation of all people, on all platforms,” a spokesperson told Al Jazeera. Progress is slow ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

The distortion of size and distance is usually prominent on zoomed-out maps that show entire continents or the whole world. Most of the maps we see on a regular basis—precipitation in Ontario or ...

Because previous world maps depicted only Europe, Asia, and Africa, this discovery warranted a new map. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published one that included—and named ...

To help us better understand the scale of our spherical planet, a new, more accurate world map has succeeded in correcting the errors of relativity on the world map. Created by Hajime Narukawa at Keio ...

Hivemapper Introduces Bee Maps: Revolutionizing the Mapping Industry with a Deeper, Smarter and More Accurate View of the World September 20, 2024 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time ...

Most of the maps we see on a regular basis—precipitation in Ontario or temperatures in British Columbia, for example—aren’t just closeups, but they’re often snapshots of accurate 3D globe ...