The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...

Firaxis and 2K continue to twiddle with Civilization 7's exploration phase, adding new map generators that produce more ...

Oceans cover three-quarters of the Earth, yet only 20% of the seafloor has yet been mapped. The race to understand these ...

Earlier in 2025, UNSW Sydney Ph.D. candidate Christina Schmidt submitted her thesis—from the deck of Australia's ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

Newly released, first-of-its-kind agriculture maps of the state of Hawaiʻi are expected to help policymakers, land managers ...

The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...