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 ...

A new compact X-ray telescope may finally give scientists the first complete map of the Moon’s elemental composition, unlocking secrets of its formation and evolution. According to a study published ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moon, as seen from the UK. Image by Tim Sandle Moonquakes are more common than previously thought, a consequence of a shrinking and, at the same time, cracking Moon. Scientists have uncovered more ...