Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from ...

Just because Google and Apple are now calling it Lake America doesn’t mean everyone has to. After President Donald Trump ...

Google and Apple have renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America on their digital maps, following an order from President Donald ...

This interactive map compares the Mercator projection versus the Equal Earth projection. Use the slide bar to compare the 2 maps. Image via EqualEarthMap.app. Science news, night sky events and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

Google sometimes releases fun bonus features for its products and services. Recently, Google Earth gained a kind of flight simulator. Google has long been working with maps, satellite and aerial ...

A CubeSat built to measure solar irradiance matched established CERES climate instruments to within about 1 percent while ...

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Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display Three cartographers have spoken of their astonishment at the UN’s near-universal adoption ...

The UN General Assembly has endorsed a non-binding, African-led resolution promoting equal-area map projections such as Equal Earth to better represent the size of continents.