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 ...

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 ...

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the ...

"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth's baby photos." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...