Cracking the chicken-and-egg problem of utilizing resources in space has been a difficult challenge for over half a century.

“Metes & Bounds” is a mapmaking system that takes natural landscape features and uses them as references for measurements and boundaries. “‘Metes’ is French for distance, and ‘bounds’ refers to ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...