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 ...

No matter how long humans have looked up and stared at the moon — and despite the number of satellites we've sent up to observe it — our maps of its terrain still hit a resolution limit. Yet, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A still image of the Moon and the southern portion of the SOFIA data. A new study using NASA’s and DLR’s now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the ...

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