Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, has introduced the Leica Pegasus TRK300, a compact and adaptable mobile mapping solution ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

At Utah State University, researchers are using a radical idea known as the holographic principle to bridge the gap. By ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Whether we were taking a trip to the digital afterlife or playing with exploding trains as a sport, PAX East gave us plenty of memorable games to look forward to.

The images were captured by the HEXAGON fleet of satellites operated by the U.S. National ... "We have to manually sync those images with our existing maps and then go over them inch by inch looking ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat? True. But that isn’t the point.

The earliest known world map was etched sometime around the 6th century BCE onto a small clay tablet measuring just 4.8 by 3.2 inches. It depicts the world from the Babylonians’ point of view ...