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 ...

This is just in time for all those teams considering building a robot lunar rover to win $20 million in the Google Lunar X Prize. NASA said Tuesday that it has added new lunar imagery to Google's Moon ...

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 ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Google Inc. and NASA Ames Research Center said Monday that they have finalized an agreement to deliver more of the space agency’s imagery and information through the Internet’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES--Google on Thursday announced it has sponsored the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon with a purse of $30 million. The contest invites private teams from around the world 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.