Fall foliage is set to peak in October this year, and the Forest Preserves of Cook County can now help visitors find the closest fall color hot spot via a new interactive web map feature, according to ...

The production of maps to track the progress of ongoing eruptions has long been part of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory mission to inform the public about volcanic hazards in Hawaii. The methods ...

Maps have evolved as technology continues to transform the utility of different media. No longer are they simply sheets of paper that are used as a guide in navigation, to locate the distance between ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

Over billions of years gravity has pulled the universe’s matter into a chaotic netting of filaments, tendrils and voids known as the cosmic web. Galaxies are strewn along these strands like beads on a ...