Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

The Lunar Trailblazer satellite will depart at the end of the month on a mission to find and map water on the surface of the ...

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

What's the mission? A spacecraft will circle the moon to remotely map different forms of water on the lunar surface. Type of craft: Orbiter. Launch: Early 2025. Launch vehicle ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The data allowed the team to construct maps of the region ... by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton, and hit the lunar surface,” Kring said. “The impact ejected high-energy streams ...

The data allowed the team to construct maps of the region, including the basin and its ... brushed by the mountain summits of ...