Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better understanding of the impact history of the young Earth, thanks to a new geological map of the moon's ...

The age of Mare Orientale could act like a lunar Rosetta stone for dating the age of the moon's other giant impact basins.

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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 ...

The final supermoon in a series of four will occur tonight—here are the best places in the U.S. to catch a glimpse.

Beautiful lunar maps spanning four centuries of progress wonderfully illustrate the unfolding of our ability to map the Moon. Rare, early, photographs add to the sense of history. Comprehensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next supermoon — which appears larger and brighter than a regular full moon due to its proximity to Earth — will not be ...