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 ...

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 ...

Accurately translating the Earth's sphere into a flat map always calls ... Ghanaian policy analyst Bright Simons says the continent needs more than a larger size on maps to "earn global respect".

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.

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our ...