Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

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

In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally ...

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

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

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

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...

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 ...