For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

This meant the ancient ocean of molten lava extended across the entire moon. The new map of Vikram ... shows an undulating landscape of highlands and low, flat plains around the lander.

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as molten as the near one eons ago.

Observers across most of the United States will have front-row seats to the spectacular total lunar eclipse overnight on ...

From fiery 'blood moons' to ancient legends, discover the surprising science and history behind lunar eclipses.

New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...

But evidence for Callisto's subsurface ocean has remained inconclusive, as the moon has an intense ionosphere. Scientists thought this electrically conductive upper part of the moon's atmosphere ...

The surrounding landscape has taken on a ... At this moment, the moon is shining directly overhead from a point in the Pacific Ocean, 1,565 miles (2,520 km) northwest of the Galapagos Islands.