Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005.

Astronomers have created the most detailed view yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, a nearby active spiral galaxy characterized by intense star formation and intricate structures. Using the European Southern ...

Alex Hutchinson’s latest book is The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map, from which this essay has been partly adapted. “Mummy uses Waze ...

Maxar’s detailed digital Earth joins a growing AI push to help robots orient themselves in the face of GPS attacks. Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your ...

According to Nasa, SWOT covers about 90% of the globe every 21 days through repeated observations — the satellite is sensitive enough to pick up these minute differences, with centimeter-level ...

To call Bellerby & Co. Globemakers’s products globes sounds criminally reductive, in the same way it’s not quite enough to refer to a Ferrari as a car or to the Mona Lisa as a painting. This ...

The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought highlights the urgent need to halt land degradation through global ... The results provide scientists with detailed information on the origin ...

Harvard scientists unveil the most detailed map of the brain ever: ‘It’s an alien world inside your own head’ The researchers, with Google and other partners, spent a decade deciphering 1 ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade ...

Artist Anton Thomas wanted to draw a "world map of nature" that would showcase the many different species across the globe — but at one point he was a little worried he'd run out of animals. "I ...

See detailed maps of the latest temperature forecasts across the world. Skip to content Skip to site index. World. ... Intense heat has stifled the globe this past year, ...