If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, writes Abby Schwent.

From maps that become art to a rack of Rand McNally road maps, straight out of gas stations of yore, “Mapping Outside the Lines” covers a lot of ground.

The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss.

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

With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky.

National Center for Seismology records shallow tremors in Tibet and Bhutan, underscoring continued seismic activity along the Himalayan fault system.

Do you know who is called the father of geography? Find out how Eratosthenes measured the Earth's circumference and created ...

Greenland is often touted as the world's largest island that is not a continent, boasting an impressive area of over 836,000 square miles. However, this number can be misleading depending on the map ...

One of the most remarkable events in the world is the annual mass nesting event on the coast of Odisha, India, where ...

A reader says his father was rejected from the reparations scheme — but he was blessed by his reunification with his birth family ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near Leh, Ladakh, at 11:51 am IST on January 19, 2026, with its epicentre located at 36 ...

Claudius Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, found solace in the stars. He believed human life was brief but observing the cosmos offered a way to rise above mortality. His work, The Almagest, ...