The world’s oldest map of the night sky was amazingly accurate. Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient ...

A 4,000-year-old stone slab, first discovered over a century ago in France, may be the oldest known map in Europe, according ...

On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Maps, both historic and newly created by National Geographic, yield new insights into the full scope of Japan's battle plans for the day ...

For years, astronomers have been working to piece together the story of our universe, but the critical early chapters ...

Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...