Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

As well as the geological history of the moon, the map provides information on its 14 types of structures and 17 types of rocks, with labels for 12,341 craters and 81 impact basins.

Some theories include internal mantle water that was brought up through geologic processes ... questions about water on the moon and provide maps for the next generation of landed lunar robotic ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

After consulting the GSWA maps and aerial photography ... a fundamental role in the geological history of our planet, as they clearly had on our cratered Moon and on other planets, moons and ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

But so much change has happened since there are few geological relicts from so long ... There's a theory the Moon was bombarded by meteorites billions of years ago, which suggests the same thing ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is wasting no time and is already drilling into the dusty regolith to study the ...