When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Clouds may interfere with your skywatching for International Observe the Moon Night, but there's ...

In the most comprehensive lunar map yet, the moon looks like it’s been playing paintball. Each splash of color identifies a discrete rock or sediment formation, including craters, basins and ancient ...

A new pair of lunar maps lets you explore the moon without bothering to get off Earth first. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently posted online two moon maps — a photo mosaic and a ...

The Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, showing the geology of the Moon’s near side (left) and far side (right). NASA/GSFC/USGS Even at its closest approach, the moon doesn’t come within 220,000 miles ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

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