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 ...

In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, snow-covered block with a volume of more than 1500 cubic meters suddenly detached from the ...

A group of Chinese scientists spent 10 years making the most detailed and up to date map of the Moon. It shows the geology of the Moon’s surface, including craters from meteor impacts and remnants of ...

The first global map of the largest moon in the solar system — Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons — shows a sharp contrast between older cratered areas and newer, lighter terrain. The map was published ...

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, Google today released a new version of its Google Earth exploratory software that includes a map of the Moon with enough ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon’s complex, heavily cratered landscape. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

Where will you be for the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses in the United States? NASA has released a new map that could help you decide. Based on observations from several NASA missions, the map details ...