From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

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

Based on a series of models considering how the continents were assembled over time, a team of researchers at the University of Adelaide created an updated map of Earth's tectonic plates. The map will ...

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Have you ever tried smashing a ball into a flat rectangle? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you ...

Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research arm, announced the release of AlphaEarth Foundations on Wednesday, a new AI model that can process terabytes of daily satellite data ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before. The two-sided map is made up of two circles ...

New data from a pioneering six-year survey expands a colossal 2D map of space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The largest ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. When you purchase through links on ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that ...