The Japan Institute for Design Promotion has awarded its prestigious Good Design Award to a map that completely changes our perception of the world. Given that the planet is a sphere, representing it ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

Have you ever tried smashing a ball into a flat rectangle? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Like all planets, Earth isn't flat.

There's nothing like a map to help explain the world. But some maps do a better job of it than others. Which is why Boston's public schools have adopted new world maps for some of their classrooms.

Last week, researchers released the first-ever geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Here’s the map again, flattened into a 2D, rectangular map ...

In a resolution that begins “Whereas, the Earth is round . . . ,” cartographers are urging book and map publishers, the news media and government agencies to stop using rectangular maps to depict the ...

CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...