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

Before that momentous innovation, the mapmaker creating a world map drew on two resources in particular, neither of which was physically part of the earth: the sky above and his own imagination.

When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a representation that despite its apparent distortions has been around more than 400 years.

A 1602 world map created by the Italian-born Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci, which places China at its center, is on display at the Library of Congress.

The map showing the two hemispheres of the world in the Hunterian collection was designed for the Second Qing Emperor of China, Kangxi (1662-1722) by the Jesuit Father Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88 ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

With 'Map of the Soul: 7,' BTS will extend a years-long cultural reign that is literally Beatlesque in stature. It’s time for skeptics to stop writing them off as a fluke or pop fluff.

How men like Gemma Frisius or Gerardus Mercator in the Low Countries, working in freezing temperatures and semidarkness, could produce some of the best maps or globes of their time seems unfathomable.

Google is planning to use satellite data, AI technology, and computing power to map methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that's responsible for nearly a third of global warming ...

The Whole Wide World kicked off in 2001 as a showcase for host Rita Houston's wide-ranging taste in music. She mixed MIA with Marvin Gaye, The Bird and the Bee with Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald ...

Maps could change the way people understood the world around them. In the 1880s, the social reformer Charles Booth produced a moral map of London, with houses color-coded by income and—in Booth ...

Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed. Birthrates are falling fast across countries, with economic, social and geopolitical consequences ...