Imagine looking down at Earth from space, but in real-time! A live satellite map uses pictures taken from satellites that are ...

Creating a map of the world presents a fundamental problem – how to turn the three-dimensional sphere of the Earth into a flat, two-dimensional image. In 1569, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Google Earth VR on Meta Quest 3 lets you explore the entire planet right from your virtual reality headset. Instead of just ...

Oh hello! I’m just working out where I am by using this world, er…globe to give it its proper name. A globe is a model of planet Earth, showing how it looks from space. This one shows all the ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is covered ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

The search giant has updated Google Maps so that when users zoom out completely, the perspective switches to a 3D globe, instead of a flat map view. Prior to the update, Google Maps used a 2D Mercator ...

Google Earth’s time-travel feature is more than a novelty. It’s powered by a massive collection of scanned maps from archives ...

You can now see what the Earth looked like millions of years ago – thanks to an interactive map that lets you travel back in time. Ancient Earth Globe shows how the planet’s land mass broke off and re ...

EARTH can be a confusing enough place these days but explorers from thousands of years ago had it much worse. Below is a round up of whimsical ancient maps that include phantom islands, legendary ...

The interactive online map, known as MeteoEarth, takes a global look at the rainfall, cloud cover, wind patterns and temperatures on our planet. Users can zoom in and out and around the 3D globe to ...