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.

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 ...

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 ...