Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005.

What you need to knowGoogle Earth turns 20 and rolls out a virtual time machine, so you can swipe through years of Street ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

The institution, since 2013, has experimented with different projections, including the Robinson map, but in 2024 settled on the Equal Earth map. “The World Bank Group is committed to ensuring ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...

The Equal Earth World Map builds off previously released maps like the Mercator projection map and the Gall-Peters projection map. However, these two maps had problems of their own.

But a new map projection may finally solve the long-standing problem of distorted world maps, offering a more accurate and balanced representation of Earth’s landmasses. The Equal Earth Projection: A ...

This latest map is able to portray both an accurate size and shape of the Earth’s landmasses, thereby resolving the two issues of previous world maps. The search for an unbiased, well-proportioned ...

Mysterious 'mega-tsunamis' that shook the entire world for 9 days revealed by satellite Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode Island ...