Google launched a less than spectacular, yet brimming with potential, feature to Google Earth last year called "Google Sky". It effectively lets users turn the camera upside down to view the stars ...

Google plans to open source Google Sky Map and close down Social Graph API, the Needlebase data management platform, amongst other projects. Dave Girouard, VP of Product Management at Google, ...

When I was young, my parents had a copy of the National Geographic Atlas—the one that weighs around 30 pounds. While the maps of Earth were fascinating, what held my attention were the pictures of the ...

Google today has released a more complete implementation of the Google Sky data to Google Maps. Back in mid-December Google released an API to sky so you could make mashups with Google Sky data for ...

Deep-space stargazing, meet crowdsourcing. For some time now, Google Sky has enabled users to view a wide range of imagery from high-level sources like the Hubble Telescope, NASA satellites, and the ...

Google announced that they have taken Google Sky from Google Earth and now made it viewable on the web at sky.google.com. Many of the Google Sky features found within Google Earth are also available ...