Distance geometry problems (DGP) arise from the need to position entities in the Euclidean K‐space given some of their respective distances. Entities may be atoms (molecular distance geometry), wireless sensors (sensor network localization), or abstract vertices of a graph (graph drawing). In the context of molecular distance geometry, the distances are usually known because of chemical properties and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments; sensor networks can estimate their relative distance by recording the power loss during a two‐way exchange; finally, when drawing graphs in two or three dimensions, the graph to be drawn is given, and therefore distances between vertices can be computed. DGPs involve a search in a continuous Euclidean space, but sometimes the problem structure helps reduce the search to a discrete set of points. In this paper we survey some continuous and discrete methods for solving some problems of molecular distance geometry.