Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth 3D is an interactive, educational app in the Windows Store that delivers an interactive ...

Google today relaunched their Keyhole satellite Image mapping system as Google Earth. Google Earth combines 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capability and Google search and is based on Keyhole ...

It's no secret that Earth's volcanoes are the result of magma rising through the planet's mantle, but have you wondered just where those 'roots' run? UC Berkeley can provide an answer. It just created ...

Google today announced a new version of its mobile Maps application and talked about the new things it's doing to fill out Google Maps. At the Google I/O conference Wednesday, Google outlined several ...

Over the years, we’ve covered a variety of news stories about Bing Maps (formerly known as “Virtual Earth”). In particular, we were impressed with their “Version 2” cities that included thousands of ...

NUVIEW's satellite constellation will use LiDAR to create its 3D maps, which could prove beneficial to farmers and urban planners. Reading time 2 minutes Satellites flying overhead in Earth’s orbit ...

Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

Google Earth/Maps has been used to show the location of nuclear bombs and map out nuclear disaster potential for a while now. Alex Wellerstein’s NukeMap was a very popular tool, and now he’s back with ...