The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

This video identifies the seven continents and five oceans of the Earth, and also where the Equator, Northern and ... teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where ...

They are named after a Flemish cartographer who showed the spherical Earth as a flat rectangle ... size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, as the position of the magnetic North Pole is officially ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to new research from University College London and the UK's Natural History ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

About the canyons: The two canyons, called Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, are located on the far side of the moon, so they can only be seen from orbit — not from Earth. Each canyon is over 165 ...

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