New program lets armchair astronomers get an up-close look at the stars. Aug. 22, 2007 — -- Armchair explorers will now have the entire universe at their fingertips, thanks to Google's latest ...

Deep-space stargazing, meet crowdsourcing. For some time now, Google Sky has enabled users to view a wide range of imagery from high-level sources like the Hubble Telescope, NASA satellites, and the ...

Google Sky Map lets you use your Droid Incredible to locate and identify constellations, stars and planets, and it displays these items on your phone's screen. It can use your phone's GPS to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on the intersection of games and technology. On Wednesday, Google released an update to its 3-D mapping program, Google ...

Google launched the latest addition to its Google Earth application. This time, instead of zooming from space to street-level view on Earth, users will be able to zoom from Earth to the stars. Called ...

When I was young, my parents had a copy of the National Geographic Atlas—the one that weighs around 30 pounds. While the maps of Earth were fascinating, what held my attention were the pictures of the ...

Since its introduction two years ago, Google Earth has been a great way to travel around our world and see some of its https://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186 ...

Using Google Earth in Sky mode is a fun and interactive way to explore the universe. By importing images from space telescopes like Hubble and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Google Sky lets you fly ...

As analysts go gaga over Android this week, Google is unveiling a high-tech “mobile planetarium” that could catapult the system into a whole new world. Google Sky Map was officially introduced Tuesday ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9MeF2Au9c&w=425&h=355] So while the rest of us who are not Robert Scoble are still waiting to cry and experience Microsoft ...

Check out Google's newly web-based Sky application. It is truly wonderful and a credit to their geek roots that they would produce this without any blatant profit motive. Forget about patchy internet ...