Ever look up into the night sky and wonder about any of those twinkling points of light? Wish you could get a closer look? Maybe via a guided tour by a world-renowned astronomer? Well, if you did, you ...

WorldWide Telescope is Microsoft's answer to Google Sky, the online virtual telescope the search giant unveiled last year. Powered by a mix of software and Web 2.0 services created with Microsoft's ...

Microsoft has now released, in beta form, its long-awaited WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that pieces together some of the world's best ground telescope and satellite images, using data and imagery ...

Imagine charting the constellations during your lunch hour or taking a peek through the Hubble Telescope at your favorite hotspot. Now you can thanks to the WorldWide Telescope, a free project from ...

The first images, including high-resolution pictures of Mars and the moon, are expected to be available starting later this year and could eventually exceed 100 TB of information, Microsoft said.

Microsoft released a free software application on Monday that lets users explore the galaxy. According to a press release, the application "brings together imagery from the best ground- and ...

Microsoft has just announced that its “WorldWide Telescope” project (WWT) will hit open-source. WWT is the Google Earth of astronomy; a premiere online resource that allows users to create scripted ...

Microsoft announced today that it will open-source its WorldWide Telescope project (WWT). Begun in 2007, the WWT was founded as a collaborative institutional program with the goal of creating "a free ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CARMEL, Ind. — What looks more like a ...

Wishing you could explore the ocean of images that NASA has taken of the moon and Mars? That treasure chest won’t be out of reach much longer. NASA and Microsoft Corp. today announced that they’re ...

PASADENA, Calif.– Panoramic images of the sky obtained at Palomar Observatory and by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), plus pointed observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope, form a ...

Ever look up into the night sky and wonder about any of those twinkling points of light? Wish you could get a closer look? Maybe via a guided tour by a world-renowned astronomer? Well, if you did, you ...