From Palaeolithic cave paintings to cruciform churches and Sydney’s Kings Cross, this deceptively primitive intersection of two lines has enduring symbolic power.

Glen Whitney stands at a point on the surface of the Earth, north latitude 40.742087, west longitude ... any of the lines crossing. (You can see this for yourself by drawing three boxes and ...

With so much uncertainty, Chen says, after heat shield separation, “we could be off in our position in latitude and longitude ... she says, drawing a bumpy line. If Jezero was lifeless, carbon ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...

From Trump's flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf to the reignited conflict in Kashmir, these are some of the ...

The U.S. proposal would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which Ukraine has rejected. By David E. Sanger Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler David E.

He spoke to the National Security Advisors of two nations as India conducted missile strikes on multiple sites in Pakistan in response to the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on ...

Watching the black smoke rise above the Vatican, I certainly felt part of world history. For centuries smoke has been used as a signal to notify whether a Pope had been elected or not. To actually ...

Stretching along the 100th meridian — a line of longitude running roughly from Laredo to Bottineau, N.D. — Powell’s line marks a somewhat abrupt climate shift: arid and harsh to the west ...

If you look inside the front and back of the nearest hardcover book, you’ll probably see colored or decorative endpapers holding the pages to the covers. More than structural necessities, these ...