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 ...

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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 ...

Navigating alien Moon terrain is a significant hurdle. The Moon currently lacks a real-time, precise navigation system akin to Earth’s GPS. This forces lunar rovers and astronauts to depend on ...

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 ...

Think of it like a Google Maps for space. Unlike in 1972, you don’t have to be a high-tech agency to follow the latest lunar mission.

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 ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is officially in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in anticipation of its launch into space later this month. The petite satellite is set to launch no ...

Maps can communicate information in several ways. Symbol sizes and colors can describe numerical values or categorize data. Landscapes can be exaggerated to emphasize terrain and imagery can show what ...