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 ...

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 ...