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A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

Much has been written about the astronauts who first landed on the moon 50 years ago, but the real stars of the Apollo missions are these gorgeous maps. I still remember a cartoon in a newspaper in ...

The Moon seems like a pretty barren place, but studies in 2009 revealed traces of water in the lunar soil. Now, scientists from Brown University have used data gathered from NASA's Moon Mineralogy ...

NASA and the USGS partnered up to create the most detailed map of the Moon ever. The map, which is available online, color-codes craters and other geographical features, showing all of the tiny ...

It's been 50 years since humanity last visited the Moon, and we're planning on returning to our celestial friend in the sky pretty soon. And this time, we'll have a better understanding of what makes ...

If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn’t know the moon’s topography cold, the first human moon landing might have been aborted or worse. Now that NASA is planning new missions to the Moon with project ...

Early lunar mapping efforts, beginning with Harriot's telescopic observations in 1609 and Galileo's topographic sketches, transitioned from two-dimensional representations of spatial relationships to ...

Hot damn, look at the freakin’ Moon! Scientists led by the United States Geological Survey’s Corey Fortezzo have released what they call the “Unified Geologic Map of the Moon—an authoritative map of ...

Here's a surprising fact: scientists have better maps of Mars than they do of the Moon. As NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce explains in her report on today's All Things Considered, that's one reason NASA ...

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 ...

Orthographic projections of the “Unified Geologic Map of the Moon” showing the geology of the Moon’s near side (left) and far side (right) with shaded topography from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter ...