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This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

At maps.google.com, enter your home address in the search bar at the top-right, hit return, then click the photo of your home ...

This strange white object is visible on Google Earth, located in west-central New Mexico's remote mountain wilderness region ...

Shutterstock Image Google's satellites pick up a lot of useful things. As an avid Google Maps user I rely on those satellites ...

ALARMING images of the word "help" spelled out in an empty lot have sparked horrifying conspiracy theories. An area of undeveloped land in Los Angeles is the subject of mass speculation on social ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Usually, a wander around Google Earth will be to look at your uni mate’s house or to figure out what random bar you stumbled into the other night. But one area has sparked major concern online ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s January 20th executive order to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali to the Gulf of America and ...