Here’s a little Friday fun. Although the new Sky mode from Google Earth 4.2 is designed to look up at the night sky – and doesn’t have the ability to tilt your view like Google Earth – it is still a ...

A former NASA scientist has released an informative animated video that shows how fast Earth is rotating relative to the Sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and the Cosmic Microwave Background. The simple ...

A new art installation using 3D cloud data projected onto the side of a mountain in Cappadocia attempts to capture the Earth’s 5bn-year journey in terms of topography. Revolution of Topography, ...

Since Google Earth launched in the early 2000s, its ability to fly to various places and show parts of the world in 3D has been widely used, especially on TV broadcasts. Instead of just capturing a ...

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this ...

Have you ever wished the Jupiter or Saturn were closer to Earth? Saturn’s rings would offer a more interesting view than the Moon’s craters, right? Well, now you can stop imaging. Amateur astronomer, ...