NASA's new Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, set to land on the Moon's surface in 2025, aims to revolutionize our understanding ...

Big missions in 2025 will study everything from water on the Moon to the transformation of our universe after the big bang ...

One suspects there was a good kind of mania behind the drawing up of the Lunar Atlas, a series of geological maps plotting the rock formations on the Moon’s surface that are as much art as they are a ...

However, in the 1990s, NASA's Clementine mission detected water on the moon. Clementine was the first mission to completely map the surface of the moon, including the lunar poles. This data ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

The map took three weeks to produce and covers an 840 mile (1,350km) by 620 mile (1,000km) area of the lunar surface to a scale of one to 1,470,000. The Apollo 11 mission saw American astronauts ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is currently working on the highest resolution 3D map of the Moon to ... of what’s on and below the lunar surface. ISRO submitted its initial ...

This led him to conclude the Moon could not have water on its surface, as that water would vaporize. These missions collectively provided maps showing how hydrous minerals – minerals containing water ...