Several U.S. states from New Mexico through West Virginia will have a good chance at viewing the lunar eclipse on Thursday.

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant ...

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.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet. The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe, which took more than 100 researchers over a decade to ...

Our solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede of Jupiter, has never been completely mapped — until now. Scientists led by Wheaton College’s Geoffrey Collins combined data from NASA’s Voyager 1, 2 and ...

A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in future lunar exploration. In research that may prove ...

"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 ...