Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. 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.

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an ...

However, it distorted the shape of the continents. As such, it didn’t provide an accurate view of the world, either. The Equal Earth World Map, on the other hand, builds on a combination of ...

A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the ...

New research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has pulled in super-precise data from both Earth and the Moon to account for the shape of both objects. The result is the most accurate map of ...

“The pattern we found is so reproducible that we were able to make an accurate prediction of when ... between the tilt, wobble and shape of Earth’s orbit. “[This] confirms the natural ...

Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, its center may be more malleable than expected and has changed shape in recent years.