The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. The ...

You’ve (probably) never seen the world unless you’ve served a stint on the International Space Station. Only a few hundred people out of billions of folks alive today have ever seen an ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

New research at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has pulled in super-precise data from both Earth and the Moon to account ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

(1) (Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) The closeness of results of observations, computations, or estimates of graphic map features to their true value or position.

The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the map -- and it's absolutely massive.

As with any archaeological site, the plotting of a detailed and accurate map of the mass of ruins is a necessary first step to figuring out what one has actually found. And in this case ...

A map showing only the horizontal position of features on the Earth's surface which show geographic ... A planimetrically accurate map showing planimetric detail and other general features shows ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

Accurate, high-temporal-resolution population data are critical for urban planning and emergency response as cities grow.

And next month, Google will start adding more detailed lane information to some metropolitan areas.