The next giant leap

There's nothing we love more than ambitious research with world-changing potential, and space exploration and research have long produced much of the scientific community's most ambitious, even audacious work.

We honor the work that's been done in the past, and want to foster and support that work today and in the future. By supporting space-related research and exploration, we hope to inspire a new generation of innovators to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We believe that the same imagination and passion that fuels space research and drives those who meet the challenge of space exploration will also help advance research and development in fields closer to our own.

What Google's doing in space

Google Lunar X PRIZE

We're proud to sponsor the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a prize for the first privately-funded robotic rovers to land on the Moon. We like the approach of using competition to stimulate the private sector to achieve important goals more quickly and affordably than previously possible, and we're glad that the X PRIZE Foundation has chosen the Moon as its next objective. By the time the Lunar X PRIZE ends in December 2014, we hope to have helped make private space flight more viable. Efforts like this will stimulate a passion for space-related research and education in a new generation of potential innovators.

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Google Moon

We've updated our lunar exploration tool with content from NASA Ames researchers, including high-resolution immersive panoramas from every Apollo landing site (available in context for the first time), historic audio clips, re-projected high-resolution charts, surface imagery, and elevation data from the Clementine and Apollo missions.

Try Google Moon

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  • Google Sky (in Maps) and Sky in Google Earth Use Sky in either Google Earth or Google Maps to zoom in to distant galaxies and nebulae, view constellations and the movements of the planets, and more.
  • Google Moon Learn about the historic Apollo lunar missions with Google Moon's updated panorama, audio, and imagery from NASA.
  • Google Mars See elevation, infrared, and visible imagery maps of Mars made in collaboration with NASA and Arizona State University.
  • Space on Google for Educators Find space education tools, classroom modules, teaching materials, and more.
  • Google Lunar X PRIZE Learn more about Google's new 7-year X PRIZE, to be awarded to the first privately-funded robotic rovers to land on the Moon.
  • X PRIZE Cup 2006 Explore the history of spaceflight and visit the X PRIZE Cup 2006 online.
  • Google Lunar jobs Learn all about (and apply to work at) the Copernicus Center, Google's new campus on the Moon.