Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

We’ve finally mapped all of Zealandia.

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving ...

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

US soil reveals uneven decomposition rates: new analysis shows carbon is released up to ten times faster in some areas.

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

New seismic map reveals 892 active faults across Greece, offering the first comprehensive database of the country’s tectonic ...