A former Google contractor is suing the company for allegedly stealing from him the idea for the Sky layer in Google Earth. The lawsuit filed this week in federal district court in Atlanta seeks ...

BALTIMORE -Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away ...

When Sky first came out about a month ago, Google included a simple animation showing how the planets move in the night sky using time animation. The planets were represented by little icons, but ...