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

From the moment you arrive – as jetlagged and travel-worn as you’re likely to be after a two-day odyssey from Canada – you ...

MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary: the plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light years.

MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...

The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping distortion.

and Antarctica get a bulge and appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses on or near the equator — such as Brazil, India, Congo (and much of Africa), which are compacted.