The planet that appears so steady beneath our feet is, in reality, subtly reorienting itself in space. As ice melts, oceans ...

Google Maps and Earth have revolutionized how we see the world. Google Maps navigates unknown cities in real time, and Google Earth operates on a larger scale. Google Earth takes us on an immersive ...

The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth’s land surface is being created with ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution ...

A map depicting a flat Earth surrounded by rings of ice walls from an online art forum is being taken by some social media users as evidence the planet is flat. The illustration depicts the continents ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

Rapid access to information is one of the largest barriers we have to deal with as a group of people in the Internet Age. Earth Map is a free application designed to be easily used and accessible to ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before. The two-sided map is made up of two circles ...

Scouring the corners of Google Earth and Maps has become an interesting way for people to explore the planet, and sometimes they come across the most unexpected finds. From random snapshots of humans ...

The now-defunct satellite ERS-2 disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, returning to Earth after more than ten years in space, between Alaska and Hawaii, according to the European Space ...