Neowin News Feed for: Earth

Google Earth Pro 7.3.7.1155

Razvan Serea — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:20:02 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.7.1094

Razvan Serea — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:42:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.10441

Razvan Serea — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:40:02 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Oxford explains what made Earth shake "every 90 seconds over nine days" in 2023

Sayan Sen — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:28:01 +0000

Back in September of 2023, the Earth shook for "every 90 seconds over nine days" and now in 2025, Oxford scientists have solved what caused it. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.10201

Razvan Serea — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:06:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.10155

Razvan Serea — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:02:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Stellarium 24.2

Razvan Serea — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:12:02 +0000

Free, Open Source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.9796

Razvan Serea — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:18:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.9750

Razvan Serea — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:54:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

New ESA weather satellite sends back its first image of Earth with remarkable detail

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 06 May 2023 05:26:02 +0000

European Space Agency has released the first image of Earth clicked by its MTG satellite that launched last year. The satellite is capable of scanning the entire Earth disc in just 10 minutes. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.9345

Razvan Serea — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:14:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.9326

Razvan Serea — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 09:50:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.6.9264

Razvan Serea — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:44:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.4.8642

Razvan Serea — Tue, 17 May 2022 03:44:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.4.8573

Razvan Serea — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 03:58:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

Google Earth Pro 7.3.4

Razvan Serea — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 19:52:01 +0000

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It's a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Read more...

You can now travel through time with Google Earth and see how the planet has changed

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:42:02 +0000

Google has announced a major update for its Earth service, which lets you see pictures from the past 36 years from all over the world and see how landscapes have changed up until the current day. Read more...

SpaceX almost lands Starship successfully on the third attempt

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:12:01 +0000

SpaceX has finally managed to land a Starship rocket, however, several minutes after, the vehicle exploded due to a fire which managed to reach the propellant which subsequently ignited. Read more...

Google AI model outperforms traditional methods of weather prediction

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 06:52:01 +0000

Researchers at Google AI employed a trained convolutional neural network in nowcasting precipitation. The results were instantaneous and more accurate than traditional methods in certain scenarios. Read more...

Google Earth gains the ability to measure distance and surface area

Vishal Laul — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:34:01 +0000

Google has introduced a new tool that allows users to measure the distance between two points or the surface area of a region. The tool is available on the web and Android, and "coming soon" to iOS. Read more...

Microsoft commits $50 million to its AI for Earth program

Usama Jawad — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:10:01 +0000

Microsoft is investing $50 million in its AI for Earth program as a part of the company's three-stage, five-year plan, which will see researchers study environmental issues affecting the planet. Read more...

Scientists discover four Earth-sized planets orbiting sun-like star

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 04:16:01 +0000

A team of international astronomers has confirmed the existence for four Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearest Sun-like star, Tau Ceti. Visible to the naked eye, the star sits 12 light years away. Read more...

'New Google Earth' is here to show you the beauty of our planet, diversity of cultures

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:50:01 +0000

One week after its original teaser, Google has unveiled the new version of Google Earth. Currently rolling out to users, it offers new sharing and discovery features with an emphasis on education. Read more...

Google updates Earth Timelapse with massive amount of satellite imagery data

Ben Moore — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:10:01 +0000

The latest update to Google's Earth Timelapse brings petabytes of new imagery data from more than 5 million satellite images. The update is now live on Earth Engine website and on desktop. Read more...

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope 5.5

Razvan Serea — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:36:01 +0000

WWT is an observatory on your desktop, allowing you to view the entire solar system in 3-D with light and shadows created from the sun, and can explore the Earth and Mars in incredible detail. Read more...

Mass Effect 3's free 'Earth' DLC coming July 17

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:51:53 +0000

BioWare has announced today that a new multiplayer-focused downloadable content pack called "Earth" will be available for free on July 17. Included are several new maps, weapons and characters Read more...

Google Earth 6.0.3.2197

Steven Parker — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:31:49 +0000

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your... Read more...

Google Chrome, Earth, and Picasa now available in Iran

Brad Sams — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:52:19 +0000

In the March of last year the United States eased sanctions against Iran to allow for greater flexibility on Internet based content and products. The goal of this lift was to help opposition groups raise... Read more...

Google Earth 5.2.1.1547

Steven Parker — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:43:39 +0000

Google Earth 5.1.3535

Joshua Seed — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:39:06 +0000

Google Earth 5.1.3534

Joshua Seed — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:53:06 +0000

Google Earth gets a big update

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:47:01 +0000

Google has updated their popular world mapping software with new features like ocean imagery, historical and touring. The newly updated Google Earth 5.0 allows users to take a trip back in time with the... Read more...

Microsoft Virtual Earth gets a 48TB update

Sean Bradford — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:08:03 +0000

Over than past few months, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has been preparing the service for one of it's biggest updates since the release. What's the definition of "one of it's biggest"? Well it's over... Read more...

Time travel to ancient Rome with Google Earth

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:58:56 +0000

Google has today announced the launch of Ancient Rome 3D, a layer for Google Earth allowing users to explore the ancient city of Rome as it stood in 320 AD, under Emperor Constantine. Ancient Rome... Read more...

Virtual Earth Map Control SDK 6.0

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:30:13 +0000

This software development kit (SDK) provides programming references and how-to topics for getting started with the map control for Virtual Earth™. You can use this control to build your own Web sites that use Virtual... Read more...

FedEx Integrates Virtual Earth

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:11:30 +0000

Federal Express has launched their new drop box locater service using Virtual Earth. Search for the nearest drop boxes and you'll get a resulting list of locations. Near the top of the result list is... Read more...

Google Earth 4.2.0198 Beta

Razvan Serea — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:29:28 +0000

Google Earth is a free-of-charge, downloadable virtual globe program. Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put... Read more...

Earth-watching satellite to improve Google Earth images

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:02:12 +0000

DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Incorporated's interactive mapping program Google Earth, plans to launch a new high-resolution satellite, dubbed WorldView I, on Tuesday. Together with the company's existing Quickbird satellite, it will offer half-meter... Read more...

Google Earth 4.2.0196 Beta

Razvan Serea — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:18:47 +0000

Fossett Sought via Google Earth

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:02:22 +0000

Images from Google Earth are being enrolled in the search for adventurer Steve Fossett. Many people are scouring up-to-date satellite images of Nevada to try to spot Mr Fossett's downed plane or wreckage. The project... Read more...