"The moon is sort of like Earth's attic in terms of preserving the impact records; it's the only place where we can get Earth ...

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 ...

What if robots could guide each other during an expedition on the Moon? A new system called Swarm Navigation Network made by ...

And when Ebb and Flow had fulfilled their duties, NASA crashed them into a rocky hillside on the moon. These "psychedelic" maps and an ashy crater are all that remain. NASA's Scientific ...

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 ...

A map dating from 1742 comes from the Atlas Coelestis (atlas of the sky) Old maps of the Moon and stars are being shared to mark 50 years since the first manned lunar landing. Some will feature in ...

a new moon race is on Explore 50 years of lunar visits with our newest moon map Explore 50 years of lunar visits with our newest moon map Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge ...

If successful, it would provide a way to date other impact basins on the moon that have become much more degraded than the younger Orientale. "We chose to map Orientale basin because it's ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better ...