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 detailed atlas maps out lunar history and resources. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China has released a highly detailed ...

Humans landed on the moon more than 50 years ago. You’d think in the decades since that we would have learned all there is to know about our rocky little cousin. But, as the United States Geological ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The most detailed map of the Moon ever created has revealed never-before-seen craters at the lunar poles. The map is also revealing secrets about the Moon’s interior — and hinting ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...

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 ...

Early lunar mapping efforts, beginning with Harriot's telescopic observations in 1609 and Galileo's topographic sketches, transitioned from two-dimensional representations of spatial relationships to ...

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions have created the largest and most detailed map of the lunar surface yet. One of the many previous geologic maps of the lunar ...

There’s now a map of the Moon’s surface more detailed than any that came before it. Published in the journal Science Bulletin, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country’s Institute ...