A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiter planets is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimension, a team of astronomers says. Using data from NASA's James Webb ...

As technologies have evolved over millennia, so have the ways in which we’ve mapped the world. But the reasons we map remain the same. From geographic discovery, exploration, and storytelling to the ...

Imagine the scene: You’re driving in an unfamiliar city and use Google Maps on your iPhone to get directions to your next meeting. But you don’t just want to know how to get from point A to point B.

The flagship product of the collaboration is Site3D, a 3D point cloud map of Earth’s surface. Credit: Array Labs Array Labs, Umbra Space and Raytheon have signed a partnership to speed up the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities, the Internet search company's latest step in its ambitious and sometimes ...

Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics.