Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, Google today released a new version of its Google Earth exploratory software that includes a map of the Moon with enough ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – New higher resolution lunar imagery and maps including NASA multimedia content now are available on the Google Moon Web site. Updates include new content from the Apollo ...

It's great for directions, for time-wasting and for convincing yourself you need a faster computer. My favorite use, in the dead of the winter, is to zoom in on the berm at Maryvale Baseball Park in ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

A new NASA video shows the sites of each of the manned Apollo moon landings on the surface of our moon. The video shows the phases of the moon flash by as time passes, with each of the landing sites ...

As revealed by Steven Levy in his great book In The Plex, in the early days of Google one of the founders’ ideas for advertising the new search engine was to project a lazer image of the Google logo ...

Google's latest Doodle celebrates the third quarter moon phase with a fun interactive card game. The Google "Rise of the Half-moon Doodle" highlights the different phases of the lunar cycle in the ...

Navigating alien Moon terrain is a significant hurdle. The Moon currently lacks a real-time, precise navigation system akin to Earth’s GPS. This forces lunar rovers and astronauts to depend on ...

Early lunar mapping efforts, beginning with Harriot's telescopic observations in 1609 and Galileo's topographic sketches, transitioned from two-dimensional representations of spatial relationships to ...

Having already conquered Earth, Google has branched out and mapped the Moon. In honor of yesterday’s anniversary of the first lunar moon landing, Google Moon has mapped the landing sites of Apollo ...

Why can't I see the surface in more detail?<br><br>Google Moon only has as much data as NASA was able to give us, so there are limitations (for now) on how close to the surface we can zoom.<br><br>3.