A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

A team of Germany-based researchers recently unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, which is likely the most detailed 3D map of buildings ever developed. Introduced earlier this month, the database ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

Google Maps has restored ski trails and lift data, adding updated resort mapping across North America and Europe.

An EU map depicting Greece’s eastern Aegean and Dodecanese islands as belonging to Turkey has sparked strong reactions in ...

Taken together, these studies illustrate that the Milky Way’s spiral arms are not just smooth arcs of stars, but dynamic, ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren’t just for ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the ...

Using deep beat knowledge, John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin identified a revealing trend when new French statistics showed ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...