Every winter, thousands of tourists travel to high-latitude regions like Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska hoping to see the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Vincent Ledvina, an aurora guide and Ph.D ...

Google has brought its long-hidden desktop flight simulator feature to the web version of Google Earth, letting anyone fly over real-world terrain directly from a browser with no download required.

Google Earth turned the entire planet into an open book — and some of its pages are genuinely strange. What started as a revolutionary mapping tool has become one of the internet’s greatest rabbit ...