Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the Moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history ...
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In spaceflight, every kilogram matters. Each item you bring along increases fuel consumption, which means the spacecraft ...
NASA has developed a process that creates more accurate solar eclipse maps, the agency recently announced — and the shadow cast by the moon in the new, better maps might not look quite as you’d expect ...
Sending spacecraft to the moon is not just about reaching it — it’s about ...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ...