As glaciers retreat due to a rise in global temperatures, one study shows that detailed 3D elevation models could drastically ...

A few readers have submitted links to us that show off animated 3D models in Google Earth. We have shown you some of them in the past (Tenerife Airport disaster, Disney Monorail), ...

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 ...

Planet Earth 3D (for iPad) is a basic Earth science educational app with a useful but sparse set of information. ... and the Moon. Each section includes illustrations, many of them 3D animations.

For the service's 20th anniversary, Google was inspired by a social media trend from last year in which people shared ...

What if the moon and planets were closer to Earth? That's what Nick Holmes decided to find out. Holmes, AKA "yeti dynamics" on YouTube , animated these 3D models.

An animation shared on YouTube does a great job of visualizing the ocean's depth in multiple places, bringing it all into perspective. ... Earth’s oceans are absolutely terrifying, ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that "city-killer" asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.