For generations, the world map many of us grew up looking at has shaped how we imagine the size of countries and continents. But there is a problem: the familiar Mercator projection does not ...

It makes Africa bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates. The map will ...

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on Friday on a proposal to move away from the traditional Mercator projection.

The new map makes Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Oceania larger than the traditional Mercator projection.

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly underwater landmass, spanning about 4.9 million square kilometers, challenges ...

The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.

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Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The ...

Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why. If you were to arrive in our solar system never ...