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 ...

For Earth Day 2017, Google Earth rather appropriately received a huge revamp that dropped the desktop app for a web client, redesigned the mobile apps, and added several features to better explore the ...

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 ...

Users of Google's latest edition of its mapping application are now able to build and share rich 3D content. Google Earth 4 is now a mixture of textured 3D renderings of famous architectural sites and ...

Google Inc. is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. SAN FRANCISCO — ...

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 ...

The four Airbus-built CO3D (Constellation Optique 3D) satellites were developed in partnership with the French Space Agency (CNES) and will deliver a global high-resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM) ...

In the photo released by ESA, trails show how 40,000 stars in the galaxy will move across the sky in the next 400,000 years. (Photo Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC) Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.