Maps of the world come in many shapes and sizes. Navigational and road maps help you get from place to place; topographical and physical maps give you a look at terrain; and thematic maps track all ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

and where of history into one convenient world map. Use the timeline slider along the bottom to select any year from 2010 all the way back to 4000 BCE to see what was happening during that era.

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

NASA launched its PACE climate satellite with the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone onboard. A full year of observations now ...

Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska's Denali on its maps for users in the U.S. following President Trump's ...

"As directed by the President, the Gulf of Mexico will now officially be known as the Gulf of America," the Interior ...