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

Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland’s location between North America and Russia gives it ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

"Greenland is the world’s largest island. ... On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...

U.S. saber-rattling has Canada refocusing on Arctic security and long-ignored gaps in defense.

How disproportionate media attention and a misleading conflict frame turn Israel into a moral symbol while eclipsing far deadlier wars ...

In reality, while still being very large, it's substantially smaller than Western Australia - and not too much bigger than Queensland.

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...