A team of three mapmakers, led by J Richard Gott from Princeton University, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the most accurate, yet flat, depiction of the world yet.

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 ...

Researchers have released the most accurate map ever produced of the dark matter in our Universe. The team surveyed more than 26 million galaxies in the largest study of its kind. The map will ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists just used satellite data to compile the most accurate map of global light pollution at night. The effects of artificial light do much more than block out ...

Google Maps can accurately detect your location, but only if you calibrate the app correctly. While calibration may not be necessary to plan long trips across countries, getting accurate ...