Understanding the Moon and the processes that shaped it helps us to better understand other objects in our solar system.

Our newest version uses a mosaic of some 15,000 images and detailed height measurements from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has surveyed the entire surface. The moon is peppered with ...

The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year.

Ordnance Survey (OS) has released a new map of the Moon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of humans landing there. OS has been producing detailed maps of Great Britain for almost 230 years ...

Our maps of the sea floor are less detailed than our maps of the moon or Mars. There's only one operational permanent underwater research facility on the planet: the Aquarius Reef Base.

A new simulation reveals an alternative explanation for the moon’s formation ... Cosmology and his colleagues have used the most detailed supercomputer simulations yet to model impact scenarios ...

Once on the moon, the trio will work together to autonomously ... navigation sensors and ground-penetrating radar, which can create detailed 3D maps of the lunar surface. Rather than micromanage ...

These "psychedelic" maps and an ashy crater are ... in the journal Science in 2012, the detailed data reveals many never-before-seen features of the moon, such as tectonic structures and even ...