The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

In fact, Google is promising “more 3D updates in the coming months.” Google Earth and Google Maps will likely remain separate for many more years, but we wouldn’t be surprised if the company merged ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. Using data from NASA's James Webb ...

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 ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...

A very cool (but for me, almost unusable) version of Virtual Earth was released today by Microsoft called "Virtual Earth 3D". Instead of using a separate application to view 3D imagery, everything can ...

It’s time to add another treasure to our folder of enlightening scientific visualizations, which has grown thick over the past few years thanks in large part to researchers attempting to understand ...

Google Earth is going through an evolution. Back in 2019, photographers Larry Strange and Joe Del Tufo traveled 1,200 miles to buy one of only two Seitz Roundshot VR Drive cameras in the United States ...

Google Maps is launching a few new features today, and, after a decade of trying, Google is finally launching Street View in India. What took so long?! First up, we have a few new features from Google ...

Updates for worldwide virtual mapping applications are like buses: you wait ages for one then two come along at once. We had a spare minute this morning, so we thought we'd take a look at Virtual ...

It’s an oft-told story: The boom of space startups today can be traced to dramatically lowered cost in launch and satellite manufacturing over the past 10 years. But Array Labs, a two-year-old startup ...