MIT and Google are teaming up to help find planets that may be suitable for supporting life, getting us closer to getting in touch with some friendly/not friendly aliens. Google is paying for MIT’s ...

Okavango Delta [Images: Google]A new tool from Google Earth Engine and the nonprofit World Resources Institute pulls from satellite data to build detailed maps in near real time. Called Dynamic World, ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could ...

Companies and government agencies using Google Cloud can now access 'planetary-scale environmental monitoring.' I've been writing about tech, including everything from privacy and security to consumer ...