Ever wonder how designers make models in 3D? Check out this free program from Google that lets you create, view and edit 3D plans quickly and easily.

Google has released a free new version of Google Earth on a totally different computing platform: Virtual Reality (VR). Google imaginatively calls it Google Earth VR. Specifically, for now, this ...

A new 3D model of Earth's layers could help better pinpoint where earthquakes and nuclear explosions originate.

Although the 3D models created for Virtual Earth come from more than just one source, the majority of the data comes from the large format digital aerial UltraCamX (UCX).

One resource is the SketchUp 3D Warehouse, which has a large number of models, including most of the old style 3D buildings found in the Google Earth 3D buildings layer.

Being able to fly around the globe in Google Maps or Google Earth and see 3D reconstructions of buildings and landmarks is admittedly a lot of fun, but most of these models have so far been pretty ...

A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping -- diminishing -- deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an ...

Scientists from the University of Exeter and the British Geological Survey (BGS), alongside a team of institutions across Europe, have developed a new 3D geological model designed to guide the ...

And while creating a 3D model of the Laschamps excursion – the most recent time when the Earth’s poles wandered, 41,000 years ago – Mukhopadhyay, the study’s lead author, noticed something ...