The Italian Space Agency has picked European company Blue Skies Space to build a fleet of satellites around the moon to map ...

The recent announcement of the RadioLuna project marks a turning point in how astronomers plan to explore the early universe.

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on the Moon, which could help future efforts to colonise its ...

A rare astronomical event will take place Saturday as a super new moon moves across the sky. Although this phenomenon brings the moon closer to Earth, don’t expect to see it in Texas — this ...

the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can be very useful, and a good telescope or binoculars ...