In just a few days, Mars will come within 36 million miles of Earth, closer than it has been for 15 years. As the red planet nears, we’re looking back at National Geographic’s cartographic ...

The best map yet of Earth's gravity field can help track ocean currents and study the forces behind major earthquakes, experts say. By Richard A. Lovett April 7, 2011 ...

Cartographers at the National Geographic have finally recognised Antarctica's Southern Ocean on their maps, bringing their count of Earth's oceans to five. The society — which has been releasing ...

National Geographic cartographers have listed four oceans on Earth since the society began making maps in 1915 — the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans.

Google Earth is celebrating its 20th anniversary by allowing users to access historical Street View images directly in the ...

The interactive map allows users to search for a country and then compare its actual surface area against a Mercator projection map, one of the most popular and yet most inaccurate maps of our world.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

The challenge, which took place in April and ran through Earth Day on April 22, saw thousands of entries from Japan to Patagonia and beyond, Nat Geo said. See best pictures from ...

Google Maps, Google Earth, ... features that we've introduced over the years have been thanks to AI," said Chris Phillips,VP and general manager of Geo at Google. "Think of features like Lens and ...

The twin satellites still have some years of life left, so DLR has proposed another mission that would see them produce a new 3D map of Earth every eight days, albeit in less detail. This would allow ...