Both navigate the globe, but they serve completely different purposes. Discover when to use Google Maps for transit and Google Earth for 3D exploration.

For the first time since 2013, Google has updated its satellite imagery of planet earth. The new images have more detail and truer colors, giving civilians more data than has ever been available.

Google Earth comes loaded with plenty of cool features, including a time-lapse tool that can show you how our planet has changed. Alphabet’s Google Earth is one of the handiest tools to exist in our ...

Google Earth’s new change-detection tool offers a way to visualise physical changes across Gaza, while UN satellite ...

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Several years ago, Google engineers figured out a way to stitch together satellite imagery to remove clouds, giving Google Earth and Google Maps users a better and more comprehensive view of the ...

“I’m like Godzilla!” my wife exclaimed, stomping around the room. “Ooh, I’m in Italy!” she told me, as Florence’s famous cathedral appeared in front of her. “That’s where my mom’s from, and that’s ...

Google briefly allowed anyone to create AI-modified versions of satellite imagery available in Google Earth—before quickly reversing its decision as people shared examples of AI-generated pictures ...

A timelapse look at the changing Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. The lake was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water, but has been shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were ...

A climber spotted a vast stone structure Earth, then trekked nearly four days to reach it. Archaeologists don't yet know who built it.

Google rolled out a new feature on Thursday that allowed users to deploy Nano Banana 2, its AI image generator, to create fabricated images inside its satellite imagery mapping app Google Earth. The ...