Let’s be clear: The map to Earth that NASA sent into space aboard the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft is not dangerous. It certainly hasn’t “made it a lot easier for aliens to attack Earth ...

Google's Earth and Maps have had an update that "virtually eliminates clouds" for most of the world.. Some of the new images of the Earth also have a much better resolution than before, to bring ...

An April 20 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) features an image of a world map on a radar screen. "You think radar works on a ball?" reads the text in the post. "Think again." The post ...

It's no secret that Earth's volcanoes are the result of magma rising through the planet's mantle, but have you wondered just where those 'roots' run? UC Berkeley can provide an answer. It just ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it ...

I’ve seen a lot of images of our fair blue world, but this one is unique and (somewhat more than metaphorically) breath-taking: a map of Earth showing ...

These are now viewable through the newly-updated Google Maps and Google Earth apps, the company has announced. The new, sharper images come from the Landsat 8 satellite, which NASA launched in 2013.