This morning, Buzz Aldrin and I got to pretend we were on the moon. The astronaut was in Washington for the unveiling of the new-and-improved Google Moon , a digital lunar model with the same fluid ...

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 ...

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On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo lunar walk, Google launches the Moon in Google Earth, providing 3D images and information to would-be space tourists. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Google Inc. wants to fly you to the moon -- virtually. On Monday, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the Internet search giant released an addition to the popular Google Earth mapping ...

Google Moon went live back in July 2005 with relatively low resolution images of our closest neighbor. In conjunction with today’s news about Google backing private moon landings through the Google ...

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 ...

Moon to Google. Standby for liftoff of Google Earth 3D moon mapping. Well, maybe. The gang at Google is preparing to embark on some new type of mission, and speculation is running rampant that it’s ...

Moon buffs, it's early Christmas time. NASA and Google have launched an updated version of the search engine's Google Moon, offering new higher-resolution images of the lunar surface, and markers ...

Last September, my colleague Steven Melendez wrote about the Google sponsored $30 million competition to fly a robot to the moon. The Lunar XPrize zeroed in on five startups to be finalists. It seems ...

Google’s latest Doodle is a card-matching game with a lunar theme. Beyond just making matches, you can string together phases in order for big points. Add on to your opponent’s chain of phases to ...

Update: Google has confirmed that the Lunar XPrize will indeed end without a winner. In a statement issued on Tuesday, XPrize leaders Peter Diamandis and Marcus Shingles had this to say: After close ...