Astronomers have generated the first three-dimensional map of a planet orbiting another star, revealing an atmosphere with ...

Imagine strapping on a virtual reality headset and 'walking' through a long-gone neighborhood in your city -- seeing the streets and buildings as they appeared decades ago. That's a very real ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Google has updated Google Maps with over a thousand new 3D models for buildings and landmarks across the world. Google has updated Google Maps with over a thousand new 3D models for buildings and ...

A little geeky, but for those trying to generate a 3D model of elevation data from Bing Maps REST Elevation Service, Ricky Brundritt shows us how to create it using HTML5 and Bing Maps. He takes us ...

LiDAR is a powerful tool for mapping terrain, and it can also be integrated into 3D printing. Learn about it here!

Google Maps has long sported 3D models of major world landmarks. Some of them, however, left something to be desired. For example, the Piazza del Duomo in Florence was missing its signature domes. Now ...

High-temperature superconductivity represents a potential breakthrough across multiple fields of technology, from MRIs to levitating trains, hoverboards and computing. Scientists at the Department of ...

Advances in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require the development of validation metrics to independently assess map quality and model geometry. We report EMRinger, a tool that ...