The map is more than just a pretty picture; it is a critical tool that helps scientists decode the moon’s dynamic history. The details captured include everything from ancient, cratered regions ...

More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s moon Ganymede — has finally claimed a spot on the map.

The first complete topographic map of the moon and its craters has revealed details of billions of years of bombardment by asteroids, and the early history of our solar system. Among other things ...

Scientists have a new map -- the best created so far -- of the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, and it is both beautiful and revealing. Ganymede is technically a satellite of Jupiter ...

Lots of people have maps of the Earth festooning their walls. Now you can be one of the first to have a map of Ganymede, Jupiter's icy moon, on yours.

There's a lot of space in space. That's the point hammered in by this huge to-scale map of the solar system, If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel, created by the interactive designer Josh Worth.The map ...

New Map Reveals Secrets of Io, the Solar System’s Most Volcanic Moon The best-yet map of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io hints at a hidden magma ocean—and more By Robin George Andrews ...

Painstakingly Accurate Solar System Map Shows Just How Much Space There Is in Space. ... On a map where one pixel represents 3,474.8 kilometers (the diameter of moon), ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

The population suggested by 2017 OF201’s discovery potentially hundreds of its kind could total 1% of Earth’s mass, comparable to the Moon’s mass and redefining the solar system’s tally.

Mars will stay in the spotlight through the 2030s thanks to a sample return mission. But in the 2040s, Uranus will take center stage, and Saturn’s moon Enceladus will steal the show in the 2050s.

Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It's on our moon, right nearby. NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first ...