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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telescopes, ship navigation and eclipses spurred the first detailed charts of Earth's nearest neighbor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...

In yet another innovative move Google just announced Google Moon. It’s a Google maps interface showing part of the moon, and including information about the moon landings. It’s a nifty tool and I ...

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.