The multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS releases the largest map of the universe, going back to almost the beginning of time ...

Rolling Stone caught up with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki to discuss the challenges of reinventing the series for ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

but its true size is nowhere near that of the whole African continent. As it turns out, the map we’ve long relied on to depict the world isn’t actually the most accurate visual. In 1973 ...

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...

Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we ...

If you’ve ever thought that Canada or Russia looked massive compared to countries like Brazil or India, you’re not alone. The map we all grew up with doesn’t always accurately represent the true size ...

but they look odd and convoluted if you grew up with Mercator maps. There's a nifty website called The True Size Of that allows you to move countries around and see how big they actually are.

A map posted on Reddit, however, shows countries true to their shape and size. One user commented: "So Brazil is actually enormous." Another user added: "It’s always mind-blowing to see how ...

True. But that isn’t the point. See, the world maps we’ve been ... more accurate map, though they worked to retain the relative size of areas, something the Robinson map struggled to do.

The Facebook post's map appeared to be created using a website called The True Size. Its "About" page said: It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use ...