Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the Moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history ...

The dark side of the moon is no longer half the face of a friend. Using current gravity and topography data sets, the side of the body that never faces the Earth has the look of a palimpsest: the ...

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NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced — and the shadow cast by the moon in the new, better maps might not look quite as you’d expect ...

Mapping the moon can be tedious for humans — so, scientists are enlisting the help of algorithms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ...

We will never stop thinking and talking about the moon, says Matthew Shindell, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. “In cities where there is a lot of artificial light that ...

Several states will have good viewing conditions for the lunar eclipse on Thursday night, according to a map from AccuWeather. Why It Matters The only lunar eclipse visible in North America this year ...