Now, scientists believe that they have figured it out. Two huge canyons scored into the surface of the Moon were created in ...

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 ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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