As you’ve been following WorldWide Telescope, I wanted to let you know that Microsoft Research has made a number of new features available today. These new features bring an even richer visualization ...

Robert Scoble has a really good post up about the WorldWide Telescope, a project just announced out of Microsoft Research. Why am I blogging about a Microsoft Research Project? Because it sounds like ...

The Microsoft Research team is building an epic map of the universe using data and photographs collected from the many telescopes around the world, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They call ...

Microsoft has released the first free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, the company's new stargazing application. WorldWide Telescope offers high-res images of the night sky from sources like ...

Microsoft recently made its WorldWide Telescope stargazing app available as a public beta, but, unfortunately for Mac users like our friends on the Wired Science blog, it's a Windows-only app. But of ...

Windows only: Microsoft Research releases astronomy application WorldWide Telescope, software which offers "terabytes" of detailed telescope images of the night sky for exploration right on your ...

Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is kind of like Google Earth for the sky, allowing you to explore the outer reaches of space from your browser. If the WorldWide Telescope sounds vaguely familiar, you ...

In February, Robert Scoble wrote that Microsoft researchers showed him something that made him cry. At the time, he couldn't write about it, but it turned out to be this project, the Microsoft ...

Hey, amateur astronomers: good news! A vast array of astronomical data is now just a mouse click away, thanks to a new online interactive astronomy visualization software program from Microsoft ...

Sheesh, is this going to be Microsoft’s enduring attitude? See something that’s popular, copy it, try to make it a little better? I mean, there’s Zune, Xbox, Bing, Bing Maps…the list goes on, but the ...

Microsoft announced it has open-sourced its WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project, a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope and provides guided explorations of the universe.

One thing that Ballmer didn't discuss during his CES keynote last week was a small Microsoft project dubbed WorldWide Telescope (WWT), a Virtual Earth for the universe. A new version has been released ...