Google Maps is getting sharper satellite imagery and more Street View content, while Google Earth will soon let users access more historical imagery. Starting this week, Google is introducing sharper ...

DigitalGlobe's new satellite just sent down its first image of our planet. Your Google Maps view of the world is about to get better. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Since its launch in 2005, Google Maps has become an invaluable tool for navigating around the world. Over time, innovations have been added to improve the service, like Street View’s on-the-ground ...

French startup Kermap has developed a ‘digital twin’ of the Earth that claims to offer the most up-to-date views of our home planet. The programme is called Nimbo Earth Online and it is the only ...

If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane, or figure out where people need help after a disaster, it’s much easier to do with the view from a satellite ...

You know those moments where you learn a piece of mind-blowing information that makes you feel like your entire life was a lie? Google Maps co-creator Bret Taylor has sent the internet into panic mode ...

If you look at satellite images of the world over just the last five years, some of the changes are striking: Massive swaths of forest burned in Australia, Russia, and California. In Egypt, urban ...

Looking at Earth at night from space turns the planet’s extremely varied and complex surface into a much simpler view of light and dark. The ghostly outlines of continents, laced with webs of light, ...

Google makes its mapping products more informative and immersive with the use of imagery, and now the tech giant is giving us a deeper look into its map-making process. The tech giant says it has ...

The Sentinel-6B satellite arrives in California for launch, ready to measure sea level with unprecedented climate accuracy.