Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could ...

Researchers from IIT Kanpur have reconstructed the solar interior magnetic fields using three decades of observational data.

This is the context for the Mercator map, the one that shows Greenland looking like a hulking prize to Donald Trump. The Mercator was first introduced in 1569 by a Flemish geographer, and by the 1700s ...