New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

LONDON (AP) — Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there’s ...

Maxar’s detailed digital Earth joins a growing AI push to help robots orient themselves in the face of GPS attacks. Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global ...

Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about ...

Bhamo, a town in the northern hills of Myanmar, home to just 166,000 people, may appear to be a small town, but it is where almost half of the world's heavy rare earths are found, like the minerals essential for electric cars and wind turbines, as per a ...

New research indicates that the water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a molecular signature closely matching that of water found in Earth's oceans. This discovery revives the possibility that Jupiter-family comets like 67P played a role in ...