Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

Concerns persist over recent and potential conflicts in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and potential conflagrations ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

Tom PattersonThe Equal Earth map projection. An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might make distorted maps a thing of the past.

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The federal government, including the military, is changing the name on maps to "Gulf of America." Even Google suggested it ...

NASA launched its PACE climate satellite with the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone onboard. A full year of observations now ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the ... (Pull cursor to the right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 to see the modern map) ...