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 ...

This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and scientists mean "distant" quite ...

But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that. Cartographers presented this solution in a new article published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. According to that ...

And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America. The references were tantalizing, but for those ...

Lula da Silva defended the map, stating, “The Earth is round. Our perspective matters.” Brazil has launched a new world map that places the South American nation at the center of the world ...

New forces had been unleashed by all these maps, which marshaled a violent remaking of a new world as much as a rational depiction of an old one. Three years after Cervantes died, as war burned ...

Abigail Varney for The New York Times Illustrated maps like Mr. Thomas’s are powerful in part because they mimic how the human brain perceives the world, said John Roman, an artist-cartographer ...

Cheng, together with graduate students from Princeton University, discovered the potential dwarf planet while searching for ...