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 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 ...

Microsoft chairman William "Bill" Gates announces that the computer software program WorldWide Telescope will be available free to Internet users by the end of May 2008. Gates calls it "an observatory ...

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 ...