The landscape is stark, dark and dramatic, formed by a series of eruptions in the last 16,000 years that have stacked layer ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Sydney – Australian scientists on Tuesday said they had identified a possible 280 additional craters on the moon, a finding they said could shed light on the history of the Earth's natural satellite.

Lunar Trailblazer, which weighs about 440 pounds (200 kg) and measures about 3.5 metres wide when its solar panels are fully deployed, is being sent to find and map this water on the moon's ...

Using cutting-edge instruments, it will examine features including the permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's South Pole, which could contain significant quantities (potentially 600 million ...

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

This loose estimate of its age as 3.8 billion years comes in part from crater counts. The more craters a surface has, the older that surface must be. By discovering the precise ages of Orientale ...

Since June 2009, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been circling the moon, compiling data for the first full topographic map of its surface. The data implies that 3.9 billion years ago ...

Why the moon looks like a potato on NASA’s new eclipse maps The newer mapping method takes elevation on Earth and the moon’s topography into consideration.

Coordinates: 4.5° S, 40.7° W Feature named after: Ghost crater locations The Moon’s large basins were once dotted with craters, before volcanic flooding flooded many of them and created the maria.

China has revealed the most detailed atlas of the moon ever made. The high-resolution geological map is the first major update of lunar information since NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s.

China released the world's first set of high-precision geological maps of the moon drawn by China's scientific research team on Sunday, mainly based on scientific exploration data from the Chang'e ...