When he was growing up in communist Bulgaria, graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov became obsessed with maps. Atlases were among the few colorful books he had access to, and he spent hours tracing the maps ...

From charts of UFO sightings in the United States to surveys of bear population density in Finland to a 3-D visualization of where London’s airport employees live, a new collection of maps shows off ...

The Lovecraft Atlas, which beautifully maps the cosmically terrifying worlds brought into existence H.P, Lovecraft, is only ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Global Ecosystems Atlas is a tool that aims to serve as an open-source repository for data on all the ecosystems in the world. Developed by the ...

"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

One day, we could be Martians. Not the luminous green blobs with three eyes and wobbly antennae, but humans, born and raised on the Red Planet. NASA researchers are currently spending a year in a ...

Beginner star atlases show stars visible without a telescope. They typically include the 109 Messier objects and other bright deep-sky objects. Many beginner atlases show stars up to magnitude 6.5.

“Imagine going to a bookstore or the library to pick up a riveting read, and all they have is thousands of copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” writes Frank Jacobs, speaking our language in the ...