Today Google has announced that Google Earth Pro is now available for free. Google Earth Pro used to cost $399 per year. Google Earth is a geospatial software application that displays a virtual globe ...

If you want to track changes in the Amazon rainforest, see the full expanse of a hurricane, or figure out where people need help after a disaster, it’s much easier to do with the view from a satellite ...

Google Earth has so many features that its hard to keep track of all its capabilities. Some of the features are almost hidden (like the built-in flight simulator) and others require some developer ...

Time animations are a new capability Google added to the Google Earth 4 beta in late summer of this year. When someone simply adds time stamps to KML content, a slider appears in the interface which ...

A new animation showcasing Earth's evolution has surfaced in a new paper published in the journal Science. The animation was created using a new model, which highlights over 100 million years of ...

A new animation created using Google Earth offers a tour of an area of forest slated for destruction by logging companies. The animation, created by WWF-Indonesia and David Tryse, with technical ...

The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second). A scientist at NASA animated how long it takes light to travel around Earth, as well as between the ...