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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google may have just released one of the coolest animation apps of 2018: Google Earth Studio, a browser-based animation tool based on Google Earth’s 3d and satellite imagery. While many people already ...

This is the second in a series of posts discussing animating in Google Earth that we started last week. Today we are not looking at animation itself, but how to get a model into Google Earth that you ...

Google rarely fails to impress with technology demos. Their latest — Monster Mash — is aimed at using artificial intelligence to allow the creation of simple 3D animations without a lot of training or ...

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, ...

It’s time to add another treasure to our folder of enlightening scientific visualizations, which has grown thick over the past few years thanks in large part to researchers attempting to understand ...

Earth's oceans are absolutely terrifying, especially when you stop to think about how unexplored it is and how little we know about the creatures that call it home. Another frightening fact about the ...

Scientists have obtained the first-ever 3D picture of interconnected magnetic 'dances' in near-Earth space, known as magnetic reconnection events. The data from ESA's Cluster satellites will help to ...

seaIce_max_2015_Feb_25_2015_withAve_STILL.2950_print.jpg An image of the Arctic sea ice on February 25, 2015 shown over the 1979-2014 average maximum sea ice ...

Gaia mission were used to create this animation of the motion of constellation stars. The "apparent shift caused by Earth’s ...