Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Forty years ago, the Voyager spacecrafts were launched, destined to ...

Back in the optimistic early days of space exploration, everyone thought it was a great idea to offer aliens a chart telling them how to find Planet Earth. But now the man who sent four maps into deep ...

At first glance, the map appears to be a contemporary reference map of Earth. Colors reflect the physical geography of the planet. Shades of blue, green, gold, and brown differentiate landforms, ...

First someone had to conceive the idea of maps, then someone had to conceive the identity of ecosystems, and then someone could map those ecosystems. This clearly acknowledges that all maps are not ...

New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

The incredible variety of landscapes on Earth has kept explorers busy for centuries. Even now that virtually all of the land has been mapped, the most extreme locations on the planet—highest, lowest, ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it actually is ...

In just a few days, Mars will come within 36 million miles of Earth, closer than it has been for 15 years. As the red planet nears, we’re looking back at National Geographic’s cartographic encounters ...

The solar system still has only eight confirmed planets that are orbiting the sun. It recently had nine planets, but it all changed after NASA and other space agencies decided to demote Pluto to a ...

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental organization dedicated to conserving the lands and ...